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270 NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. chancel-arch remains in its place, and shews that this part of the wall be- longs to the original structure ; several Norman moulded strings remain in other parts of the walls : but the impost is described as a bracket, and the strings are said to have been placed in their present situation within a few years ; Avhere they were previously placed we are not informed. The ex- isting church is chiefly of the latter part of the fourteenth century, having been rebuilt by Pyel, the founder of the college adjoining. West Doorvvay. with the Stoupa aud Niches. The ground-plan is a very remarkable one ; its peculiarity arising pro- bably from the use of the Norman foundations, and accommodating them to the enlarged plan required by the college, which leaving no convenient place for the campanile, it was built detached near the west end of the church, and connected with it by a western porch and a small domestic building of two stories, probably used as a porter's lodge, the college having been situated on the south side of the church, with a passage to it through this porch, and a gateway, of which one of the jambs remains, attached to the west