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the church encroached upon the cloister the fratry was rebuilt a 
few feet further north too, though such a proceeding would 
hardly be necessary. 
The western side of the claustral buildings consisted of the 
block under the charge of the cellarer, called the ce//artum. It 
is here complete to the roof as far as the structure is concerned, 
but the original round-headed windows have been superseded by 
larger ones, and sundry partitions and insertions have quite 
destroyed its ancient arrangements. The ground floor consists 
of a large hall about go feet long by 26} feet wide, divided into 
two alleys by a row of six massive Norman circular columns with 
scollopped capitals. The two southernmost have, however, been 
removed. At the south end of the hall isa chamber 114 feet wide, 
which doubtless originally served a two-fold purpose as the slype to 
the cloister and the outer parlour, where conversation was carried on 
with secular persons, and the ordinary business transacted. Its use 
as a passage must, however, have ceased when the north aisle was 
rebuilt, as the new wall blocked up the doorway. The north end 
of the ce//arium is formed of a space 21 feet long by 264 feet wide ; 
originally one room, but afterwards divided irregularly into three, 
so that the eastern half forms one room and the western half two. 
The northern of the latter is 9? feet wide and about 153 feet 
long, with a groined roof. The ribs were intended to be orna- 
mented with the dogtooth molding, but the work was begun and 
never finished. The three apartments may form the kitchen and 
larder. The main hall was probably used for stores. The first 
floor consists, like the undercroft, of a long hall, with a large square 
chamber at the north end, and a narrower one at the south end. 
It was used for the housing and entertainment of guests of the 
better sort, and the hall probably had originally a row of pillars 
down the middle, forming two alleys, one of which was divided 
into cubicles, perhaps forming the various chambers enumerated 
in the 1540 Inventory. The cel/arium appears to be the only 
remaining part of the original Norman monastery, built when the 
canons migrated here from Calke, in the middle of the twelfth 
century. 
