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If there's no external battery box it must have been sited either under the sink or under the seats. I wouldn't have thought it would be in the front locker due to the presence of gas cyclinder(s). If you''ve traced the wires back, where do they terminate ?

do you have a battery condtion meter and switch to select car or van near the door  ?

IF you've a switch then some where there will have been a battery. Most pennine electrics live under the seats on the offside of the camper (except the pathfinder). The previous owner may have disconnected the leads from the camper instead of the battery when he took the battery out. 

Look out for a small black box somewhere between the size of a cigarette box and a matchbox fastened to the floor or wall in the offside seat locker. That will be where the battery leads would attach to the wiring harness. The battery itself would live in a loose plastic clamshell box in the underseat that might be held still by a strap screwed to the wall of the locker. If you're handy with a screwdriver and pair of pliers you should be able to sharp make up and reconnect a battery into the system.

whatever you do don't rely on your car battery to power your camper. As Mike Gallgher explained (and i speak from experience here) - the power output is different. Car batteries deliver it in short high power bursts and are immedialy back into being charged once the engine starts. Which is how they keep on doing their job. Leisure batteries are long slow output without recharge. So to use a car to power a camper would flatten the car battery in say,  48 hours, unless you kept running the engine to charge the battery but the fuel costs and the exhaust fumes getting into the unfolded bed end would not be good..