The right hand door in the north wall of the transept is Tudor and gives access to the ringing chamber and the bell chamber. To its left is a door dated 1739, now disused, though graffiti inside show the entrance being older than the present Door.
Above these doors on this face of the transept, a study of archive prints shows us that, once again, five of the windows were replaced in Victorian times by imitation Norman windows.
On the 4th of March 1643, during the civil war between King Charles I and Cromwell’s parliamentarians, the parliamentarians came to Romsey Abbey and left a reminder of their visit. At eye level near the gateway are many spherical marks where a cannonade of culverin fire pitted the north wall of the north transept. The reason for the shots is unknown - practice, intimidation, high spirits or execution...
Continue a few metres to the east.
