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 ITS THE CllL'RCll OF ST. MARY, GUILDFORD. tion of this early style. There are remains of two small 'Nviiulows in the wall on each side of the easternmost bay of the choir, which show that the original church extended at least as far as that, and had no aisles or side chapels. The first thing to be added were long narrow transe})ts, which appear to have extended to the present outer walls on each side. This was probably done soon after the year 1100 : the small windows over the aisle on the west side of each of the transepts belong to the same period, and the small arches cut through each side of the tower opening into these tran- septs. The two apsidal chapels on the cast side of the transepts, one on each side of the choir, are another addition of the time of Henry II., or about a.d. 1160. The arches of the nave belong to the same period ; but the aisles were originally only half the width they are at present, and had lean-to sloping roofs, which passed under the windows on the east side of the transept. The outer wall of the aisle was rebuilt in the time of llcnry III., or about 1230, on the north side, and 12.'50 on the south ; the aisles were then made of double the original width, and had high gable roofs instead of the low lean-to roofs. New chantry chapels were made afterwards in these aisles. There is some reason to think that thero was a large wooden porch or Galilee, at the west end along the whole of the west front ; the level of the ground has there been raised three or four feet. Towards the north end of the j)orch there is a niche for an image, and towards the south end of it an aperture through the wall, apparently a leper's window, and it woidd seem that this Galilee porch was used as a chapel f(jr the lepers, wlio were not allowed to enter the churcli. Ihit we have no evidence of a U'pcrs' hospital at Guildford, though this has been commonly assumed ; and the name of ISpital Street wjia suj»j)osed to be connected with it. The f(jllowing account of tin- paintings on (lie vault of tin- (:haj)el is given by Mr. Carlos in the Archa^ologia, v(^l. xxvii, read Feb. 21, ls;37. His acccjunt of Number 2 is evidently crronc(jiis ; the subject is the well-known legend of St. Nic]iola.s, always n'))r(?s('nt«'d as in this instance : — "Tlif n(»rlhci-n chriprl has its chancfl, a srmicircnlnr j)or-