Fig. 11.-Plan and details of the house and chapel of the Mount. Window Window Jombs arched Opening of Old Material. Rebuilt. PINTH. after the foundation, but even here there are difficulties. From the evidence of the mouldings, Mr. John Bilson thinks that the north, west, and south sides of the cloister, and the church, were first built, followed by the transeptal chapels, the tower, the east side of the cloister (except the northernmost cell), and the west window of the church. But, as he points out, the arms of Archbishop Scrope on the first cell of the eastern range suggest that it was built before the archbishop's execution in 1405. It is also clear, from the preparations for the abandoned through passage west of the seventh cell, that the western half of the north side of the cloister is later than the eastern. Under these circumstances, and for reasons that appear in the text, I have ventured to colour the plan in what seems to be the approximate order of building. THE HOUSE AND CHAPEL OF THE MOUNT. The house and chapel called the Mount, which were assigned to the last prior, John Wylson, at the Suppression, deserve more than a passing notice. Though both are now greatly ruined, it is quite possible to make out something of their plan and arrangements, and a climb up to the elevated spot on which they stand will be amply repaid by the extensive view over the surrounding country. The house (see plan, Fig. 11) consists of two rooms at right angles to each other. The larger is 28 feet long by 14 feet wide, and stands north and south. It has a fireplace in the north end, and traces of two original windows in the east wall, in which was also the entrance, but this has been widened and rebuilt with old material. The lesser room extends westwards from the northern end of the larger, and was about 20 feet long, with an average width of I feet, but the side walls are not quite parallel. There are traces of a fireplace in the west end, but the walls are destroyed to below the level of the window sills. In the south-east corner is a rebated opening or hatch into the larger room. The doorway into the lesser room is in the middle of the south wall. There is nothing to show how either room was subdivided. To the south of the smaller room is an open court of the same length, but nearly 15 feet wide. It has an entrance doorway on the west, and some traces of a pentise along the east wall. The south side is formed by the chapel. The north wall of this is in line with the south end of the larger chamber, but the west wall projects somewhat beyond the line of the court, and has angle buttresses. The chapel measures internally about 30 feet by 14 feet. It had a west window, probably of three lights, another in the south wall, |