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which must originally have been a chamber or chambers of some 
description. But the most interesting discovery has resulted 
from taking down the house lately occupied by Mr. Hood. 
Two sides of this house had been formed of what were evidently 
external portions of an elegant ecclesiastical building; the 
removal of the house has brought to light a relic of great 
beauty,—the eastern gable of that building, the interior of 
which clearly shows that it was a chapel connected with the 
room or rooms above the cloisters. Here then,” the Curator 
of Antiquities concludes, we have the remains of the Infirmary 
of St. Leonard’s Hospital, with its chapel open to the wards, 
and its ambulatory capable of being warmed for the benefit of 
the infirm and sick. This is the place of which Sir Thomas 
Widdrington speaks, as cited by Drake,* ^ where the Master of 
St. Leonard’s Hospital used to keep diseased people before they 
■were in some measure healed of their infirmities, for fear of 
infection.’ It was probably the general Infirmary of the Hos¬ 
pital, and referred to in the following ancient grant:—^ William 
the Physician, son of Martyn of York, granted to St. Leonard’s 
Hospital, for the augmentation of one chaplain to celebrate 
divine service in the New Infirmary, &c.’ 
“ Interesting remains of another building, apparently much 
larger and of earlier date, have been discovered, extending from 
the Infirmary to the foundations of a wall belonging to the 
Roman Multangular Tower. They consist of three rows of 
pillars, (those of one row being of larger dimensions, and 
Norman), forming with the Roman Wall four aisles, at right 
angles to those of the ambulatory of the Infirmary. It is 
to be hoped that not many years will pass before an opportunity 
will be afforded of tracing these remains in another direction, 
so that the Curator of Antiquities may have more ample means 
of forming an opinion of the character and purpose of the 
edifice, to which these remains belonged.” 
These important discoveries added greatly to the interest and 
admiration with which the Antiquarian remains within the 
Society’s grounds were viewed by the Members of the Ai'chseo- 
* Hist, of York, p. 334, 337. 
