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west walls remain above ground. The junction of its south and 
west walls was uncovered during my excavations in 1883, from 
which the width was found to be about 274 feet, Its extent east- 
ward is unknown, but the length can hardly have been less than 
40 feet. Part of the jamb of one of the window openings that 
flanked the door may be seen on the cloister side of the west wall. 
Very interesting discoveries of tombs, etc., may be looked for 
when the area is excavated. 
To the north of the chapter-house is the slype, or covered 
passage from the cloister to the cemetery on the north east. It is 
113 feet wide by 254 feet long, and still retains its roof, a plain 
barrel vault without ribs, springing from a chamfered string. The 
segmental rear arch is the only part of the west door that remains 
in a perfect state. Nothing can be made out of the west doorway, 
and the east end has had the opening enlarged in recent times. 
Next to the slype was the calefactorium, but its site is so 
encumbered with out-buildings and offices that no more can be 
said about it, beyond the fact that it was 254 feet wide, and 
covered by a vaulted roof, probably carried by a row of pillars 
down the central line. The segmental rear arch of a door 
from the cloister remains in the south west angle. This door 
may, however, have been that to the dormitory day-stairs. 
Above the chapter-house, slype, and calefactorium was the 
dormitory. It was 25 feet 6 inches wide, butits length cannot 
now be ascertained. From the inventory of 1540 we know it was 
divided into cubicles for the canons. 
Towards the north end of the dormitory we should look for the 
necessartuim, but its site and extent have not yet come to light. 
On the north side of the cloister, and forming the whole of 
its length, was the fratry or dining hall. It appears to have 
been built, as was customary amongst canons, upon an under- 
croft. One of the north windows of the latter remains, and at its 
east end was a slype from the cloister to the building now called 
the “Hall.” The fratry itself was about 96 feet long and 24 feet 
wide. Its north wall does not range with the north end of 
the ce//arium, and perhaps shows that when the new north aisle of 
