By J. A. Reeve. 



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similar to those of the staircase just described, but the central 

 staircase is of less fine proportions, simply working round a square, 

 and its design was considerably hampered by the conditions which 

 had to be met. The appearance of the brickwork forming the 

 external walls round this central staircase seems to prove that this 

 block of building was entirely erected by Bishop Seth Ward. 



In carrying out the restoration of the eastern wing of the palace, 

 Bishop Ward seems purposely to have designed all the features 

 introduced by him in such a manner as to make them harmonise 

 with the surrounding earlier work. Thus he adopted mullioned 

 windows of an Elizabethan character, and embattled parapets very 

 much like those which crown the walls of the tower and chapel ; 

 but in the south front he used a type of architecture more prevalent 

 in his own day, and similar to what we now know as the Queen 

 Anne style. 



To return once more to Bishop Beauehamp's hall, it is necessary 

 to mention that the windows as they now exist were arranged by 

 Bishop Barrington — at all events, the lowest tier was inserted by 

 him. It may have been that Bishop Ward's hall was lighted by a 

 row of windows high up in the walls, in which case the windows 

 which now light the first-floor rooms may be in their original 

 position, but it is more probable that when Bishop Barrington con- 

 structed these first-floor rooms he took out Bishop Ward's windows 

 and raised them so as to suit the level of his new apartments, before 

 inserting the lowest tier which give light to the hall as curtailed by 

 him. 



The windows on Bishop Ward's staircase in the south wall of 

 Bishop Beauchamp's hall are similar to those already described, as 

 are also those in the east wall, some of which were inserted by 

 Bishop Barrington. 



About seventy years after Bishop Ward's work was executed, that 

 is to say, about the year 1740, an addition to the palace was made 

 by Bishop Sherlock in the erection of a library at the south-west 

 corner of Bishop Poore's camera. As far as we can see at present,, 

 no alterations had been made at this end from the time of Bishop 

 Poore, all intermediate bishops having confined their alterations ae^ 



