hurch Haugh. In the centre of the square, and approached
through a vestibule from the east, was the Chapter House, an octagon
with a diameter of nearly forty feet, supported by massive buttresses.
In Dugdale's engraving the lofty roof has gone; and the tracery of
Chapter House and Cloisters alike are Perpendicular. It will be seen
there were two places for the two Houses of Convocation, one near the
west door of the nave, and this.

There was St. Peter's College, where the Petty Canons lived, Holmes
College, and the Lancaster College. Thomas Plantagenet, Earl of
Lancaster, executed for high treason against his cousin, Edward II.,
who was canonised by the people, though not by the Pope, had a tablet
somewhere in the church at which miracles were believed to be wrought,
and two offices to himself. But whether the Lancaster College referred
to him or to John of Gaunt, or where it was situated, is uncertain.

Of all these various buildings which surrounded the cathedral and
added to its interest, the curious, by going to the south side of the
nave, may discern some traces of the old Lesser Cloisters and Chapter
House. Everything else has gone so completely that it would be
difficult to fix even the exact site.

[Illustration: PLAN OF OLD ST. PAUL'S IN 1666.]

DIMENSIONS.

OLD ST. PAUL'S.

LENGTH of Nave 252 feet
LENGTH across Transept 104 feet
LENGTH of Choir 224 feet
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580 feet
LENGTH across Portico 40 feet
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Total length 620 feet

LENGTH of Transept 293 feet

BREADTH of Nave 104 feet

HEIGHT of Central Tower 260 feet

HEIGHT Spire 200 feet
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Total height 460[51] feet

HEIGHT of Nave roof 130 feet
HEIGHT Choir 143 feet

Area about 80,000 sq. ft.

FOOTNOTES:

[38] Particularly so in the "Gleanings."

[39] _I.e._, assuming that Inigo Jones did not convert pointed into
round.

[40] Bishop Fulk Basset sent out in 1255 letters hortatory for the
contributions of the faithful. "Quod Ecclesia St. Pauli, in retroactis
temporibus, tantis turbinibus fuit quassata, &c. _ut totum ejus
tectum_, jam quasi in ruinam gravissimam declinare videtur" (Dugdale,
p