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The gate-house has a portcuUis chamber on the first floor, and a second floor above this. Au open stair ag:inst the south side leads to the battlement, from which a door, an insertion, opens into the portcullis chamber. These ujjper rooms ai*e plastered and papereil, and nothing can bo seen in them. South of this gate the wall gradually sinks, and finally has been ptdled down and removed. It may be traced as far as the site of a half-round tower, and some remains of an arch. Beyond this, also, the line of the wall may be tnced as far as the site of Bugle tower, 180 yards from the West gjte, and which caps the South- West angle of the town. The South wall is almost wiiolly destroyed, and the foimdation either removed or covered up by the broad and handsome quay which now intervenes between the base of the wall and the sea. This front was more or less convex, or rather polygonal, the angles being capped with drum towers. There are some traces of the South gate-house. In the rear of this part of the wall are the site of St. Mary Magdalene's Hospital, and in Porter-lane what was called Canute's Palace. A representation of the South gate before 17S4 is preserved by Grose. It had a low, broad Edwardian arch, with bold machicolations above, and toward the East it was protected by a long flanking wall, parallel to its ai>proach. It wjs removed 1830-40. Forty yards from the South gate was another half-round tower, and thence the wall ran straight East for 83 yards, when it reached the South-East angle of the town. In the rear of this part of the wall, in Winkle-street, is " God's House," a Norman church, now restoreil very badly, and converted into a French Protestant place of worsliip. At the South-East angle of the town, in the end of the East wall, is a gate, called God's House Gate, or South Gate, but which sliould be called Spur (jate, as it opens upon a work of that class. This gate-house is rectangular, cpiite plain, and without l)uttresses, having two upper flooi"s. Its dimensions are I'S ft. broad by 2'.i ft. deep, and the South end projects as a low salient of two faces, upon the South wall, now removed. The passage is vaulted with a higli pointed arch 12 ft. broad. Like the West gate, it had a central recessed doorway, now much cut away, and two portcullis grooves. The vault in front of the door is sujijjorted by two, and in rear of it by three, cross-ribs. Altogether in substance this gate- house resembles that of tiie West gate, and is of Early Decorated date. Its front may have been rel)uilt when the Spur tower was adilcd. The 8j)nr-work j)rojects from the Northern flank of the gate of the gfttc-house for about 80 ft. It is composed »)f a sort of lofty gallery, or curtain, terminating in a reetangidar tower, al)out 22 ft. square, witii liuttre.sses ca|)ping the two Eiust or outer angh-s diagonally. It is of three storeys, and is built across the Eastern ditch, no doulit to contain and prcjtcct its Klnice connnunicating with the sea, which originally flowed up to the wall of the tower. Thore are seen largo arches in the North and J*)a,st faces, which look a.s though there had been a pa.s8age for boats; but these seem really to have iiecu arches of construction only, intended to throw the weight of the building upon the corners, wiiich probal)ly arc more deeply founded than the* curtain. In iv North face is also a large modern arch, a relict of the canal which was to h.ave been carried beneath the tower. The spur-work and the gatt!-honse were long used a.H a iJridowell. All still bear ni.irks of that degrading occiq>atioii. 'I'iie