OS1/34/55/32
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| Remains of HOSPITAL [continued] | 005 | [Continued from page 31] Circular opening neatly moulded all round, in the N.W. [North West] angle of the tower is a Circular staircase which leads to the top, in each end of the transept is a handsome Gothic window, divided by Circularly arched Stone frames but now partly built up to preserve them from further dilapidation, the Stone font, and the recess where, it is said the bodies of the Knights were laid, after death still remain in the South end, Over, apparently a closed up door in the W. [West] wall of the tower is inserted a stone having a Stone with a Skeleton rudely Carved on it with the Serpent and worm intertwined and surrounded by a latin inscription in black letter and rendered as follows by the Revd. [Reverend] Mr. Duns -- "Gualterus Lindesay, Justiciarius Generalis de Scotland, et Principalis Preceptor Torphicensis, 1538" -- The Original extent of the Preceptory Cannot now be ascertained as every trace of it is obliterated by cultivation etc. - On the S.E. [South East] is the remains of a tower, called by the people the "Old Dovecote" and Supposed by Mr Duns to have been one of the guard towers and the extent of the Preceptory in that direction, it was very strongly built, the wall being nearly 5 feet in thickness and a low Arched door still remains facing the Preceptory, farther N [North] on the E. [East] of Bowgate while excavations were being made for drainage, the remains of walls were found and Mr Duns discover the foundation of another tower Corresponding in size to the One South - I was also informed by an aged female that an Old man who died upwards of 20 Years ago remembered a tower and gate standing here which was vularly [vulgarly] Called the Bow, and from which the houses adjacent derived the name of Bowyate or Bowgate - The marks of the nave & chancel where they joined the tower E & W [East & West] are still distinctly visible and the present Parish Church [Continued on page 33] |
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