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St. Mary's Guild and St. Peter's at Gowts, Lincoln.

arch, which dates it as late Norman. The house is longer than the other two, and the upper story mostly gone, but in Parker's "Domestic Architecture" it is spoken of as "probably the most valuable and extensive range of buildings of the twelfth century that we have remaining in England." The house within has round-headed windows with a mid-wall shaft, and a fireplace. The house just opposite was the palace built by John of Gaunt for Katharine Swynford; from which the oriel window inside the castle gateway was taken. These old Norman houses are all small. The really magnificent building which was once the boast of Lincoln was a thousand years earlier than these; this was the Roman Basilica, or Hall of Judgment, near