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Context Description:
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Room 5 was a lavatory with brick-paved floor and drain; the screen
separating it from the stair-chamber (the upper part of the flight had as usual run over the lavatory) was now broken down. A door from the court to the staircase had been walled up. Room 6, opening off the entrance-lobby (1) had a door to the central court which had been walled up and a second door in the same east wall giving on the staircase; the stairs did not start, as was usual, in the door entrance but further back, between the east jambs of two other doors which gave on the court and on the chapel respectively; the treads had gone and only part of the brick rubble filling on which they had rested remained. Since the space left for the stair-flight was reduced by the need to leave the side doors open, the threshold of the door from Room 6 was raised 0.10 m. and at the back of the entrance was a second step 0.25 m. high to the level of the paved floor at the stairs' foot; even so the gradient would have to be somewhat steep (the back of the filling stood to 1.75 m.) and there were probably steps in the thickness of the door above that between the lavatory and the court.2
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