[165] This practice illustrates the intention of the singular pilgrimage chapel at the west end of Lapworth church, Warwickshire, which has two newel staircases to its small upper chamber, evidently intended to facilitate the passage of a crowd of people.
[166] Cean Bermudez, Arq. de España, i. p. 105.
[167] “Don Juan of Medina, Bishop of Segovia, Abbat of Medina, President of the Cortes, Chancellor of Valladolid, ordered this chapel to be made in the year 1503. Laus Deo.”
[168] The walls near San Vicente are 42 feet high by 14 feet thick, and the towers of the gateway upwards of 60 feet in height.
[169] Ariz, Historia de Avila, part ii. p. 13. Ponz, Viage de España, xii. 308-9.
[170] Cean Bermudez, Arq. de España, vol. i. p. 18.
[171] España Sagrada, xxxviii. p. 134.
[172] See ground-plan, [Plate X.]
[173] See ground-plan, [Plate XXIII.]
[174] Teatro Eccl. ii. 258. Dávila, among the celebrities of Avila, includes himself, “the least of all, Pulvis et umbra.” One is surprised to find in his account of his own town so little really original matter as to the history or the date of its buildings.