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 334 ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF peculiarly unfortunate and helpless state at the present day. Yet we have done something ; it is not a -small matter to have restored that wonderful and unique east window to its original proportions, a change the extent of which can only be appreciated by those who have seen it in its former state of mutilation. And I think we may fairly say that what we have done we have done well ; the execution everywhere reflects the greatest credit on the several contractors, and shows that in mere workmanship at least we are in nowise behind our ancestors. Still it would have been more grati- fying could I have concluded the architectural history of Dorchester otherwise than by stating that the work of repair has as 3^et been extended hardly more than twenty feet from the east wall, and that the north aisle of the choir still remains in a state which I beheve is positively dangerous. EDWARD A. FREEMAN". INTERIOR DIMENSIONS. ft. in. ft. in. Length of Choir and Presbytery 100 Breadth 23 5 Length of Nave 87 3 North Aisle of Choir. Length 83 4 Width at East end .... 12 1 Width at West end .... 10 5 South Aide of Choir. Length 82 Width at East end . . . . 27 8 Width at West end . . . . 25 5 South Aisle of Nave. Length 81 2 Width 24 10 Tower (square inside) 2110 Total Length 209 1 P.S, I have great pleasure in adding to my account of Dorchester the following letter from Mr. Jewitt. The theory it contains had not occurred or been mentioned to me when I last visited Dorchester ; but, speaking from memory, I should say that, while Mr. Jewitt's view of the use of the eastern portion of the aisle and of the chamber which must have existed over it, is extremely probable, I do not think it proves that this chapel ever existed in a complete state before the aisle was added. The east end is certainly of earlier character tlian the rest, but this is just the same phenomenon which we have seen in the north aisle, and does not seem to me to prove more than that it was actually