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 FOURTH PERIOD 430 NEWARK CASTLE fireplace, at the back of which is the oven door. The oven, which was outside the walls, is now a heap of ruins. FIG. 869. Newark Castle. Fireplace in Hall. The hall (see Plan of First Floor) is a splendid apartment, measuring 37 feet 4 inches by 20 feet 8 inches, lighted by windows on all sides. These have all a polished stone fillet round the scuncheon or angle next the room. The two centre windows to the courtyard have their sills raised higher than those of the other windows (being about 6 feet above the floor) so as to admit of panels on the outside (Fig. 866) and a recess for a sideboard under one of them in the inside. The fireplace in the north wall (Fig. 869) is particularly noteworthy, being almost identical in design with that of the hall of Spedlin's Tower (Fig. 515). It measures about 8 feet 7 inches wide by 7 feet 6 inches high. Adjoining it a door leads into a projecting turret staircase. The cornice of the hall is of