. Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county. which there is no kindof evidence) the hagioscope would command a view of 11 This appears over the sloping roof in Drawing 9. The bricked up place justleft of the seventeenth century window was possibly an opening, but the stone-work is greatly destroyed. 12 Laud at a visitation in 1635 required hall and kitchen to be repaired. 18 The Memorandum Book of the Chapter has the following on page 25. Itwas during the time of Dean Hayley :— 4 Augst 1722 Whereas the Dean & Chapt of Chichr have permitted me torai
. Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county. which there is no kindof evidence) the hagioscope would command a view of 11 This appears over the sloping roof in Drawing 9. The bricked up place justleft of the seventeenth century window was possibly an opening, but the stone-work is greatly destroyed. 12 Laud at a visitation in 1635 required hall and kitchen to be repaired. 18 The Memorandum Book of the Chapter has the following on page 25. Itwas during the time of Dean Hayley :— 4 Augst 1722 Whereas the Dean & Chapt of Chichr have permitted me toraise steps out of the Churchyard to the Vicars-Hall, I do hereby promise toremove them again at their pleasure, and when ever orderd by them so to do. Witness my hand Alex: Hill. Mr. Hill was the tenant of part of the buildings. Prebendary Bennett mostkindly drew my attention to the above and has helped with this article in manyother ways. THE VICARS5 CLOSE, CHICHESTER. 105 the altar. The roof timbers of the parlour are partlyold, but do not look earlier than the time of 9. Nohth-west Corner oe Court; Doors to Dark Cloisterand Vaulted Chamber. Not long after the building of the Common Mansion,perhaps about the middle of the fifteenth century, twolittle vaulted chambers were inserted at the west end ofthe long crypt. The northern one is now inaccessible—the way into it from the little L-shaped eighteenthcentury house (p. 107) having been boarded up; thesouthern is entered by a wide perpendicular door fromthe Vicars Close, just west of the old outside stair tothe Hall. The end into which the door opens is roofed 106 THE VICARS CLOSE, CHICHESTER. with boards, but on the left are the remains of a thinpartition, pierced by another door, whose hinges remain,but one side is only held up by modern brickwork. Itgives access to an oblong chamber roofed with a nearlystraight-sided, flat, tunnel vault of chalk. The twooriginal windows are now closed up. The long cryptitself w
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