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Title: The Archaeological journal
Year: 1844 (1840s)
Authors: British Archaeological Association. Central Committee Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Council Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Royal Archaeological Institute (Great Britain)
Subjects: Archaeology -- Periodicals Middle Ages -- History Periodicals Great Britain -- Antiquities Periodicals
Publisher: (London : Longman, Rrown,(sic) Green, and Longman

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rner of the ground floor room(54). The original entrance seems to have been a nowblocked up fourteenth century doorway in the south-westcorner, which would give a passage of approach to thegarderobe.* To the same room a like doorway opens fromLitlingtons tower. This was probably at one time a two-story building under the same roof as the Song-school, butabout 1500 the walls were raised in wood and the placemade into a little house of three stories, each less than 8 ft.high, with an attic in the roof, in which state it remainedtill recently, the general arrangements being, as it appears,unchanged. The alterations now going on to make theplace more habitable, have brought to light two fire-places,one on the first and one on the second floor (132,) which arehere figured.^ * Rites, pp. 19 and 72. behind. I think it is recent. • The change would be made when From a drawing kindly lent by Sir the fireplace in the lowest story was Gilbert Scott,made, and a chimney formed in the space ■JW
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NOTES ON THE ABBHY BUILDINGS OF WESTMINSTER. 35 The fire-place itself is of ordinary type, but on its left sideit has the unusual addition of a sort of stone oven. In thejamb of the fiiC-place is a square hole leading to a cell underthe floor of the oven, into which embers might be introduced,but so far as I can see, there is no flue through which adraught could be created. The floor of the oven has beenlaid with tiles, and both it and the stoking hole have hadshutters, I suppose of iron. The tile floor of the upper ovenappears to be an insertion a few inches above the originalfloor, which has had a round opening with a large rebate asif to receive a moveable lid of tile or iron. Above the leftjamb of the fire-place is a hole with a cresset like thatin the Song-school. The room below has a similar oven,but no light-hole,^ and as already mentioned, the fire-place inwhat I have called the Sub-priors Chamber, has the stokinghole which shows that there is an oven there also, though itis n

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