VOI-. XIX. (2) 
LEONARD STANLEY 
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only taking into account the herring-bone apsis (discovered 
in October IQ14), the outside eastern curve of which falls some 
six feet short of the Norman existing wall. 
This, of course, shows that the Saxon — or Norman — 
original Chapel was both shorter and less wide than the present 
building ; moreover, it had an apsidal eastern termination, 
while this later one is square. 
In the writer’s view, the most striking feature to be 
noticed is the insertion of the two late perpendicular, or Tudor 
domestic windows in the North wall towards the West-end : 
one having a single light (set in the fitting of the Norman N. 
door), the other with three lights. Let us see how these 
struck Professor Middleton. 
x\fter describing the windows as “ very domestic in style,” 
he goes on to say : “ The object of these windows, I am quite 
at a loss to explain ; they are too far West to command a 
view of the altar.” 
Now, according to the hypothesis followed above, these 
windows are precisely of the date and style we should give 
them if this building had suffered complete, or at least con- 
siderable, domestic change or appropriation during the latest 
years of the Priory. They are non-ecclesiastical insertions, 
probably due to a radical alteration in the purpose of the 
building. It becomes clear then that the Parish Church, which 
was once this Chapel, was indeed no longer here, but had become 
transferred (as we suggested) to the larger Church during the 
late fifteenth century, where its regularly-appointed Chaplains^ 
continued to minister. 
But, although we infer this to have been the case, we lack 
evidence to prove that the eastern, or altar, section of the 
building (when the above domestic change occurred to the 
Western section) did not still survive as a Chapel. But this 
is not a very important point. The probabilities are that it 
did so survive, but merely as an oratory for the Prior’s 
private use ; and from this has handed down to us its tra- 
ditional name of the Prior’s Chapel. The lease of the Priory 
I At the Dissolution the Parish Curate received fb. In 1291 we meet with Walter de Wykmg 
parson of Stanley (L). 
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