The chapel consists of a nave 25 feet 6 inches in length by 15 feet 10 inches in breadth, and a chancel 14 feet by 11 feet 3 inches, entered by a round-headed arch 6 feet 6 inches in width and 10 feet in height.[33] The jambs of this curious arch are nearly 28 inches and the imposts nearly 10 inches in thickness. The latter are chamfered and moulded rudely with two hollows. The arch is distinctly horse-shoe-shaped, and on the nave side has a square label merging into the abacus, while the chancel side has none. The doorways were two in number, opposite to each other, in the north and south walls. Of the latter only traces remain. The north door was blocked when the chapel was discovered, but is now opened to give means of access to the building. Only half the doorway is original. [Illustration: _Photo. R.W. Dugdale._ CHANCEL ARCH IN THE SAXON CHAPEL.] It is a doubtful point how the chancel was lighted, as there is no trace of a window in the old portion of the east wall, while the rest of this wall and the south wall were Tudor alterations. The north wall contains a sixteenth century window. In the north-east corner of the chancel is an Early English bracket of beautiful work, for the presence of which it is difficult to account, unless the chapel were in use in the thirteenth century. The walls of the nave were originally 17 feet high, as compared with 15 feet for the chancel portion. There were also two windows in the nave opposite to each other. That in the north wall has been altered; that in the south wall is very curious and interesting. It is splayed both inside and out, from an opening 3-½ × 2-½ feet, with a sill 10 feet 6 inches above the level of the ground. The arch is of long, thin slabs of stone, inserted in mortar with wide joints, in some cases two inches in thickness. A ladder gives access to what was the floor above, when the chapel was divided into two floors for domestic occupation. Externally the chapel measures 46 feet by 21 feet, the walls being on an average 30 inches thick. FOOTNOTES: [32] The property even then belonged to the Abbey of St. Peter at Westminster. [33] "Most small English churches were built on a plan which is purely '_Scottish_,' all through the Saxon time and beyond it. There are scores of them all over the country. The smaller church at Deerhurst, built in the middle of the eleventh century, will serve for an example. Note its small square presbytery and narrow arch. The church at Kirkdale, near Kirby Moorside, is a contemporary dated building of like form, but rather larger size" (J.T. Micklethwaite in _Arch. Journal_, vol. liii.). INDEX TO TEWKESBURY ABBEY Abbey church purchased by the town, 15. Abbots, list of, 101. Aisles of Nave, 47-51. Altar, 74. Ambulatory, 51. Arcading, Early English, 57. Arms of the Abbey, 101. Aula regia, Deerhurst, 4. Battle of Tewkesbury, 14. Bell-tower, detached, 16, 33. Bosses of vault of nave, 42, 43. of St. Edmund's Chapel, 60.