e inscription admits of two
interpretations. What remains is here shown. This may mean "_In
honorem sanctae Trinitatis hoc altare dedicatum est_," or, as Mr.
Micklethwaite suggests, "_In honorem Sancti Petri[32] apli (apostoli)
hoc altare dedicatum est._"

The chapel consists of a nave 25 feet 6 inches in length by 15 feet 10
inches in breadth, and a chancel 14 feet by 11 feet 3 inches, entered
by a round-headed arch 6 feet 6 inches in width and 10 feet in
height.[33]

The jambs of this curious arch are nearly 28 inches and the imposts
nearly 10 inches in thickness. The latter are chamfered and moulded
rudely with two hollows. The arch is distinctly horse-shoe-shaped, and
on the nave side has a square label merging into the abacus, while the
chancel side has none. The doorways were two in number, opposite to
each other, in the north and south walls. Of the latter only traces
remain. The north door was blocked when the chapel was discovered, but
is now opened to give means of access to the building. Only half the
doorway is original.

[Illustration: _Photo. R.W. Dugdale._
CHANCEL ARCH IN THE SAXON CHAPEL.]

It is a doubtful point how the chancel was lighted, as there is no
trace of a window in the old portion of the east wall, while the rest
of this wall and the south wall were Tudor alterations. The north wall
contains a sixteenth century window.

In the north-east corner of the chancel is an Early English bracket of
beautiful work, for the presence of which it is difficult to account,
unless the chapel were in use in the thirteenth century.

The walls of the nave were originally 17 feet high, as compared with
15 feet for the chancel portion. There were also two windows in the
nave opposite to each other. That in the north wall has been altered;
that in the south wall is very curious and interesting. It is splayed
both inside and out, from an opening 3-1/2 x 2-1/2 feet, with a sill 10
feet 6 inches above the level of the ground. The arch is of long, thin
slabs of stone, inserted in mortar with wide joints, in some cases two
inches in thickness.

A ladder gives access to what was the floor above, when the chapel was
divided into two floors for domestic occupation.

Externally the chapel measures 46 feet by 21 feet, the walls being on
an average 30 inches thick.

FOOTNOTES:

[32] The property even then belonged to the Abbey of St. Peter at
Westminster.

[33] "Most small English churches were built on