At the same time the
queen's chamber was painted and wainscoted, and iron bars were
placed before the windows of Prince Edward's chamber. In 1240 Henry
commenced building an apartment for his own use near the wall of the
castle, sixty feet long and twenty-eight high; another apartment for the
queen contiguous to it; and a chapel, seventy feet long and twenty-
eight feet wide, along the same wall, but with a grassy space between
it and the royal apartments. The chapel, as appears from an order to
Walter de Grey, Archbishop of York, had a Galilee and a cloister, a lofty
wooden roof covered with lead, and a stone turret in front holding three
or four bells. Withinside it was made to appear like stone-work with
good ceiling and painting, and it contained four gilded images.
This structure is supposed to have been in existence, under the
designation of the Old College Church, in the latter part of the reign of
Henry the Seventh, by whom it was pulled down to make way for the
tomb-house. Traces of its architecture have been discovered by
diligent antiquarian research in the south ambulatory of the Dean's
Cloister, and in the door behind the altar in St. George's Chapel, the
latter of which is conceived to have formed the principal entrance to
the older structure, and has been described as exhibiting "one of the
most beautiful specimens which time and innovation have respected of
the elaborate ornamental work of the period.
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