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Jon Cannon wrote:
>
> Ely:
> Western entrance: VIP/ceremonial. Galilee added c13 to enhance such
> entrances.
> S W entrance: bishop. C12. There was once I think an entrance into
> this westwork direct from the Bishop's Palace [Dixon in Meadows and
> Ramsay 2003?].
> S side: monks. Doors from each side of cloister, 'monk's dooe' and
> 'Prior's door', both elaborate c12.
> NB On a superficial analysis, topograghy would allow a lost lay
> entrance from cloister to exist.
> N side: lay. Door in transept faces town. The medieval arrangement of
> images and relics within makes it clear that pilgrims entered here.
> Current form c17.

There was a parish church attached to the N side of nave, built to E of NW 
transept.

John Briggs 

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