"Some fragments of building on the north side of the nave were surviving as recently as 1817, when Coney's drawings were published. In one of these we see a wall with a row of windows having a rather unusual detail in their heads (Fig. 10). This would be near the site of the Loretto Chapel, built by Abbot Bere. Carter, writing some few years later, tells us that the Loretto Chapel was then standing, and if he be correct, it must have been a substantial piece of masonry exterior to the church, and not a light internal structure within it, as has been conjectured. But he may have been referring to the Chapel of Saint Thomas the Martyr in the north transept, which has sometimes been miscalled the 'Loretto Chapel.' [Illustration: FIG. 10.--VIEW OF THE RUINS IN 1723. (From Stukeley's Itinerary.)] [Illustration: FIG. 11.--GLASTONBURY ABBEY IN 1655 _circa_: ENLARGEMENT OF HOLLAR'S VIEW.] [Illustration: Fig. 12.--MS. PLAN OF JOHN CANNON, 1740 _circa_. _A_, Chaple; _B_, quire; _C_, the great arch; _D_, the nave or body; _E_, the chapter house; _F_, gate to ye kitchen; _G_, St. Joseph's Chaple.] "A sketch plan in the Cannon MS. shows a group of ruins in an apparently similar position, and he records the tradition of a very magnificent building at this point, which he terms the 'Chapter House.' However erroneous this designation, we may at least accept his record as corroborative of the existence of a richly ornamented building of some special nature (as distinct from the body of the Church at the junction of the Nave aisle and North Transept)." It seems, then, that we had formed the impression of a fine building just outside the nave wall and in the angle of aisle and transept; but to be strictly accurate, I do not think that Coney's sketch had much weight as regards the character of the work it might have contained, and so far as one's normal impressions were concerned, it was dismissed as "modern." RECORD OF EXCAVATION IN 1911.