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was direct communication with the church itself.
This provided a large arched apartment and
8 smaller rooms; but the houses on the W. side
of the close, with windows upon the street, and with
their own arched entrance from the street, I
believe were private residences, or one private
house, independent of the church. The same
may be said of the long row of narrow buildings
on the S. side of the same close. In construction, and
in details, the house on the W. side of the court
is earlier and better (see window tracery).

There was a passage from this close to that of
the next church, but I found this sort of
communication common between blocks of houses where
there were no churches. The group of houses to
the East of the close of the S.E. Church was certainly
a block of independent private residences
having no direct communication with the close, and
provided with its own street entrance upon a short
street running E. & W. from the N.S. Street to the wall.