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Chapterhouse, the Refectory, and the buttery or Kitchen.* 
The Chapterhouse block is of three stories and constitutes the 
principal feature. The length of this building is about 33 feet by 
18 feet in breadth. The lower story, which probably served as. 
a Chapterhouse, is vaulted with stone and is lighted by a triple 
Lancet E. window, and two single Lancets N. and S., near the E. 
end. There are Sedelia on the S. side, injured, but good.t A 
spiral stone staircase leads to an upper chamber, also vaulted in 
stone and lighted by three single Lancets, one to the W. and two. 
tothe S. Itis likely that this upper chamber was used as a 
Library ; and with reference to the Library, a curious Indenture 
of the year 1343 is in existence, specifying certain books as 
having been lent by the Prior and Convent of Hinton to another 
religious House, and containing an engagement under seal that 
the books shall be safely restored. Such an Indenture would 
sometimes be valuable in private life. The books are mostly 
religious works, but there is one treatise on gardening. The 
third story is a Columbarium. Evidently the Monks of Hinton 
were great pigeon-keepers.t Adjoining this block are the 
remains of the springing of an Arch, indicating the position of the 
Church on the N. side, the foundations of which may be traced 
in a dry summer, suggesting a possible length of about 70 feet. 
To the S. W. of the Chapterhouse block is a building which I 
believe represents the Refectory, stone groined, and measuring 
30 feet by 22 feet, the piers sunk some feet in the ground, owing 
* I call the principal block the ‘‘ Chapterhouse.” It has been usually 
called the Chapel, but, as there is every reason to believe that the 
Church stood close by, it could hardly have been a Chapel. 
+ The two Westernmost Bays are plainer than the Eastern Bays and 
differently vaulted. The whole is a good specimen of Early English 
Architecture. 
t On the N. of the block is a small erection apparently of more 
recent date, consisting of a vaulted corridor below and a small chamber 
above. 
