August 17, 1917. "=Capella Loretta was on ye lower level, with four or six steppys up to the pavement.=" "=Seek my chapple, as I told ye, in ye Banck.=" "=He was entered from ye west, and had a door into the littel cloister by ye transept of ye grete Church, and four stepps up to the pavement.=" "=All ye measures were marked plaine on ye slabbes of St. Mary's Chappel ... so it was recorded, as they who builded and they who came after knew aforehand where they should build.=" "=The newe chappell he was in ye bank far oute in line with ye transept as I remember it.=" September 1, 1910. "=On ye north syde of ye grete church, at ye ende, near to ye newe chappel which Bere (builded).=" EXISTING DATA. _The Deep Place._--The mention of a "deep place" calls attention for the first time to a number of facts which group themselves in a manner suggestive of such a probability. They are as follows: (_a_) Stukeley's view (1723) (see Fig. 9) seems to indicate a drop on the north side of the nave and transept, to a lower level. Coney's view (see Plate IV.) certainly shows the small building on the north side of the nave with a break in the ground just in front of it, marking a lower level for the wall. (_b_) The configuration of the ground is in favour of this. Above and eastward of the Abbey enclosure is a narrow valley running west, and filled up in its lower part, over which lies the northern section of the Abbey enclosure. The High Street runs down the north side of this valley, and parallel to it, and closely adjoining the Abbey wall is Silver Street, a name said by some antiquaries to indicate a ford. (_c_) The drainage of the Abbey church is down the north side, as would appear by the direction of the drainage channel in the foundations of the Edgar Chapel, and the larger water-channel whose course was traced diagonally beneath the floor of the quire. (_d_) In excavating the north porch, a very deep pit was found right against the north-west angle of the footings. It went down nearly 10 feet below the floor-level of the church. This may have extended east and west, and the north porch may in that case be supposed to have been approached by a paved way over a bridge. _The Bank._--The foot of the bank, as nearly as may be estimated, lies about 27 feet north of the position of the nave wall (outer face). This would bring the 31 and a half feet distance indicated by the script for the wall of the chapel, about 4 and a half feet within the bank, and this would seem to accord with the old gardener's recollection. The bank runs westwards as far as the north porch, or about 108 feet west of the transept, so that the west end of the chapel as described would be well covered, being some 40 feet east of the termination of the bank. The extreme projection of the transept, beyond the line of the inner face of the nave wall, would be about 60 feet, and not less than 54.