. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent. H U. HISTORY OF LONDON. 209 dred and ninety feet square, or seventy-two feet and a half thelength of each side ; and the walls in thickness no less than twenty-five feet. This fabric had originally but one entrance or doorbelow, and that in the east side, with a window hard by, whichseems to have been the only one below the height of twenty-twofeet of the building, where it was reduced to three feet in thickness,and contained four windows about the height of ten, and width ofthree feet nine inches on the south
. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent. H U. HISTORY OF LONDON. 209 dred and ninety feet square, or seventy-two feet and a half thelength of each side ; and the walls in thickness no less than twenty-five feet. This fabric had originally but one entrance or doorbelow, and that in the east side, with a window hard by, whichseems to have been the only one below the height of twenty-twofeet of the building, where it was reduced to three feet in thickness,and contained four windows about the height of ten, and width ofthree feet nine inches on the south side. The area of this exceedingly strong building, (exclusive of thearched cavitiesin the walls) was divided by a wall from east to west,of two feet ten inches in thickness, into two spaces of nine feetten inches each in width, representing a frame for bells; whichplainly evinces it to have been the strong bell-tower that was erectedin the little sanctuary, by Edward III. for the use of the collegiatechurch of St. Stephen, and not, as Strype imagines it to have been,the church of th
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