VOL. XIX. ( 2 ) 
LEONARD STANLEY 
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and expansions were done, from time to time, until it was felt 
to be too small, while its expansion further would have en- 
croached inconveniently upon the Cloister and adjacent 
buildings. • 
It will thus be apparent that in dealing with the Church 
of Leonard Stanley we have to deal with no ordinary, or con- 
ventional, example of an Austin-Canons’ Collegiate Church, and, 
consequently, the ordinary tests, as applied by the late Mr 
Micklethwaite, and, following him, by the late Professor 
Middleton (in so ably describing this present Church some five 
and twenty years ago, in Vol. v., B. & G. A. S. Trans.), will 
not avail to really enlighten us sufficiently about Leonard 
Stanley. The present writer, in other words, holds that the 
occurrence of the smaller and more ancient Church of the 
Parish as an isolated building here entirely invalidates the 
hitherto accepted reading of this Church as that of an ordinary 
Augustinian House ; and, therefore, we have to attempt its 
understanding by such other ways and means as are open to 
us. 
Part II. 
If this view of the remains be accepted, provisionally, 
it, of course, follows that the question arises — What became of 
the older and smaller Church (Prior’s Chapel, so called) when, 
at last, the parishioners enjoyed possession of the nave of the 
greater, or monastic, one ? 
The probabilities were that the Church of S. Swithin 
would, upon losing its parish-services, either be restricted to 
private use on the part of the Prior and his servants, or it 
might become converted to other monastic purposes. 
It therefore behoves us to examine the remains of it 
carefully in order to see, if possible, if they can still throw any 
light upon this problem. 
As it openly declares to the visitor that two wide modern 
openings in its N. and S. sides have been made so as to convert 
it into a barn ; further, that a modern, rather wide door on the 
West has obliterated the original West door, while a third 
opening (of the same date) occurs towards the East end of 
the south wall — we have to do what we can with the remainder 
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