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BOTHWELL CASTLE 107 FIRST PERIOD corridor running along the west side of the hall, with the roof resting against it. Some remains of the stair at the north end leading to the corridor (Fig. 84) existed within recent years, but are now removed. The south, or dais end, has a fine window with tracery (Fig. 83), and a door communicating with a corridor leading to the chapel and private apart- ments along the south wall, of which the windows are visible in the south elevation (Fig. 7^)- The two eastern bays of the chapel (Figs. 75, 83) FIG: 84. Bothwell Castle. Suggested Restoration. are 32 feet long and 18 feet wide, and have been roofed with groined vaulting ; some of the vaulting shafts and carved work still remain, as also a double piscina at the east end. The chapel extended one bay westwards. This bay seems to have had a plain barrel vault, and con- tained the entrance doorway (one jamb of which still remains) and a holy-water stoup in the north wall and a window similar to that of the two eastern bays in the south wall. The kitchen and offices were