outside, to be mentioned below. There seems also to have been a doorway into the ante-chapel in its northwest corner, but this was afterwards walled up. After the chapel the Survey mentions the "olde dinyng chamber." This must refer to the fourteenth century building, which is still complete, attached to the chapel on the south-west. It is three stories high, and consists of (i) a basement 393 feet long and 194 feet wide,' vaulted in two bays with simple groining springing from carved corbels; (ii) a large chamber of the same dimensions on the first floor, lighted by a wide square-headed west window of five lights; and (iii) an upper story lighted by a two-light square-headed window, also in the west wall. A circular stair or vice, now blocked, in the south-west angle gave access from the basement to the upper floors, and in the north-west angle were the garderobes. All three stories are now subdivided by modern partitions into various apartments, but there can be little doubt that the large room on the first floor was the "olde dinyng chamber," with a cellar or servants' apartment below and sleeping accommodation above. The old roof was probably a nearly flat one covered with lead, as the dimensions given, 40 feet by 27 feet, are those between gable to gable and from side to side. The present roof is of high pitch, covered with slate. The two gables may have been built just after the suppression. The absence of original windows on the east is owing to the chapel being there. On the east side of the block just described, and extending along the south wall of the chapel, are some traces of a late fifteenth or early sixteenth century gallery or ambulatory 12 feet wide, like an open cloister alley, vaulted in square bays with a lierne vault, the shafts and springers of which remain in the first bay. It must have had a flat roof, or one of very low pitch, since a doorway opened on to it from the chapel gallery. Its purpose and extent are alike doubtful. Of the next four buildings mentioned in the Survey, viz. the "oulde haull," "ij Chambers caullid the haull side," the "haull staires," and the "old Kytchen," there This has in the east wall a late Tudor doorway with carved spandrels, but all its other openings are modern. are no remains. The old hall, since it had stairs to it, probably stood upon a vaulted basement or cellar. It most likely formed the western range of buildings, and if the lines of the north wall of the chapel and of the north side of the cloister garth be produced westwards, a hall of the length given, 31 yards from gable to gable, would just fill the space. Its width was apparently the same as the eastern range. The The chambers called the "haull side," and the stairs, probably abutted against the west side of the hall, the former at the south end, the stairs at the north. latter would thus open into the screens, whence there was an "entrye leading ffrom the oute parte of the haulle" to the "old kytchen," which probably stood semi-detached on the north. The dimensions of neither entry nor kitchen are given. The western range of buildings stood on a higher level than the cloister, hence the steps in the north-west angle of the latter. The north-west corner of the "olde dinyng chamber" block does not seem to have had any building against it, and the old hall must therefore have stood away from it as suggested on the plan. But against the eastern half of the block there was clearly a two-storied building. The lower story was vaulted,' and probably served as an entry into the cloister. The upper story formed the "littill Chapell ioyninge to the olde Dinyng chambre," next mentioned in the Survey, the roof dimensions of which exactly agree with those of a building fitted in here. The little chapel had probably west and north windows, and must have been entered from the old dining chamber which it adjoined, although there are now no signs of a doorway. The next item in the Survey which concerns us is "the haull syde leades." There can be little doubt that this entry refers to the west side of the cloister, which adjoined the hall, and the length given, 27 yards, or 81 feet, is almost exactly that from the little chapel northwards to the north end of the hall, while the width, 5 yards, or 16 feet, is the extreme breadth of the cloister alley. One of the wall ribs of the vault may still be seen. Both the hall and hall side ended northwards against the frater, which is the last of the claustral buildings mentioned in the list. The usual place for the frater was against that side of the cloister which was remote from the church, and the dimensions given, a length of 35 yards and a breadth of 11 yards, enable us to assign it this position here. In most houses of canons the frater stood upon an undercroft, which served as cellarage, but in this instance the subvault was only half the width of the frater, which must, therefore, have extended southwards over the north alley of the cloister. The thinness of the cloister wall on this side is thus accounted for, since it had merely to help to support the frater floor. The frater was no doubt reached by a continuation of the steps in the north-west angle of the cloister. Its total length was 111 feet, and its breadth 283 feet, but the westernmost bay would be cut off to form the screens, leaving seven bays clear to form the frater proper; its position over the cloister enabled it to be well lighted from both sides. According to the Statutes, the food served in the canons' frater was cooked in the nuns' kitchen and passed through the turn in the window-house. As this kitchen at Watton was 350 feet away from the frater, it is difficult to see how the dishes were kept hot during such a journey, especially with the additional delay midway while they were being passed through the turning window. It is, therefore, not surprising to find, as we do from the Survey, that the canons had a kitchen of their own, which no doubt served the frater as well as the old hall. Its possible position is indicated on the plan. Of the last of the buildings mentioned in the Survey which have not been noticed, the "lytill garner in the yarde," we know nothing beyond the dimensions of its roof, 54 feet by 21 feet. It was perhaps placed to close in the west side of a yard next the old hall, and so helped to shut out the view of the nuns' cloister. It has now been shown that the Survey includes all the buildings round the cloister, but it makes no mention of the east and south alleys, probably because they were roofed with tile or slate instead of lead, nor of the remainder of the existing house upon the site. This may now be described. The house in question consists of three blocks: (i) that on the north already noticed under the name of the "olde dinyng chamber;" (ii) a smaller and later block to the south; and (iii) a larger and still later block on the west. The smaller block is a three-storied camera of the fifteenth century, standing east and west against the south wall of the fourteenth century block. The windows have been modernised and the interior subdivided, but there is little difficulty in making out its arrangements. On the ground floor was a room 27 feet long and 15 feet wide, with a fireplace in the south wall, which also contained one or more windows.1 The east wall had a small loop in its north end, but was for the most overlapped externally by a half-octagon projection which contained a stair to the first floor; this projection was also continued southwards to contain a garderobe shaft from the upper chamber. On the first floor was a room of the same size as that below, but in later times the west end was probably partitioned off, as now, to allow of communication between the three divisions of the house; it had a garderobe in the southeast corner and was lighted by square-headed windows in the south wall. The third story seems to be of later date, and was perhaps added when the western block was built. The present high-pitched roof is covered with slate. The western wing, unlike the others, which are for the most part of ashlar, is built throughout of brick with stone dressings. It now consists of a three-storied block, standing north and south, with large octagonal turrets at the western angles and a lesser turret at the south-east corner containing the staircase. Projecting from the west front towards its northern end is a handsome twostoried oriel. The house had formerly a wing at the south end, also of three stories, projecting from it westwards just north The present windows are modern. of the turret,' but it was taken down about 1840, and all traces of the junction carefully effaced. The ground floor and the first story of the existing block were identical in plan. Each consisted of a hall 52 feet long and 193 feet wide, with a panelled arch opening into the oriel. In the middle of the east wall was a fireplace, and in the south-east angle was a doorway into the vice, which extends from the ground floor to the roof. The other turrets had small chambers on each floor. The south-west turret probably contained the garderobes. The turret windows are original, but the others are modern, and it is doubtful how far they represent the older ones. The oriel was ceiled and not vaulted. The third story is a huge attic, amply lighted by large and original five-light windows at each end, and probably served as a dormitory. Externally this western block is greatly overgrown with ivy, which of course obscures many interesting architectural features, but it is fortunately kept clear of the oriel. This is one of the finest examples of its kind in the country (Plate VI.). It is semi-octagonal in plan, with a moulded plinth, and has in each side two two-light square-headed windows, one above the other, separated by a band of panelled ashlar. On the angles are slender buttresses of five stages. These end under a parapet, enriched by a continuous series of traceried panels. The effect of the whole, which is in perfect preservation, is enhanced by the carved figures projecting as gargoyles below the parapet on the four free angles. The present roof is a pyramidal one covered with green slate. There can be little doubt that the existing house formed the prior's camera or lodging. In the fourteenth century it consisted of the northern block only, but in the next century this was enlarged by the southern block. About the end of the fifteenth century the western block was added. It will be noticed that the Survey mentions the "oulde haull," the "olde dinyng chamber," and the "old kytchen," but says nothing about a new hall, etc. If such existed, as we may certainly assume they did, 1 See the engraving in G. Oliver, The History and Antiquities of the Town and Minister of Beverley in the |