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to the rising of the soil. Overhead is a loft running the whole 
length of the building, with the remains of several windows now 
stopped up, which I conceive may have been a Guests’ Dormitory. 
Beyond the Refectory is a chamber some 22 feet by 12 feet, also 
stone groined, with a large fireplace at the W. end, and a serving 
hutch. This was probably the Kitchen or Buttery. Both rooms 
are of good Early English architecture, but badly mutilated. The 
presence of Corbels suggests a covered passage running from the 
Chapterhouse to the Refectory, and also a Cloister or Ambulatory 
on the S. side of the Refectory. The buildings probably did not 
extend further W. than the Buttery ; but it is likely from the 
analogy of other Charterhouses, that there were two Courts, on 
the S. and on the N. of the Chapterhouse, containing the three- 
roomed Cottages of the Brethren. There is no trace of a 
Cemetery.* The succession of Ponds to the W. of the buildings 
may represent the Fish-ponds of the Priory. It is possible that 
the old wall on the side of the road leading to Freshford may 
have some connection with the enclosing wall of the Demesne. 
Such is a brief and very imperfect account of the Carthusian 
Priory of Hinton, neither in extent or wealth or in the interest of 
its annals among the important Monastic Houses of England, but 
the second in foundation among Charterhouses, and one of the 
two Somersetshire Houses of the Order which contained only nine 
Houses in all England. As we have seen, the hand of the 
destroyer was soon laid upon some of the principal buildings, as 
soon almost as the ink was dry in which the deed of surrender 
was written, and greedy men were quarrelling over the very stones. 
Those stones built the Manor House, and no doubt built many 
other things. The dissolved Priory became a quarry, as so many 
other old Abbeys and Castles have become. In how many walls 
and cottages may they not be hiding themselves! The wonder 
in this case is why more was not removed. Excavation has not, 
* But it is probably situated on the N.E. of the Chapterhouse. 
