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the pulpitum. This usually contained the organs, and “also there 
‘ was a Letterne of wood like unto a pulpit standinge and adjoining 
to the wood organs over the Quire dore where they had wont to 
singe the nine lessons in the old time on principall dayes, standinge 
_ with theire faces towards the High Altar.” ! Owing to the shortness 
; of the nave it is doubtful if there was a principal nave altar, as 
was invariably the case in large monastic churches. The normal 
position of the western door from the cloister was opposite the end 
_ of the west walk, so that processions passing round the cloister might 
_ go direct into the church and so take their station before the rood. 
But at Lacock, for some reason, the doorway was some distance 
further east, perhaps because the westernmost bay of the church 
“was filled by a gallery. The position and existence of the screen 
| that carried this is shown by the east side of the quoins of the 
i vaulting shaft being cut away in a perpendicular line to receive 
he end of the screen. 
Tue CLoIsTER. 
The cloister court is about 80ft. 
square, and was surrounded origi- 
nally by covered alleys, about 10ft. 
wide, with wooden pentice roofs ; 
supported next the court on 
continuous open arcades. ‘hese 
arcades were formed by twin 
columns with moulded caps and 
bases, all of Purbeck marble, 
carrying trefoiled headed arches 
and standing on a dwarf wall. 
All this work has been removed 
by subsequent re-buildings; but 
fragments have been found at 
J various times, from which the 
Scale =!" inches drawing (Fig. 2) has been made, 
Fig. 2. to show the original arrange- 
Capitals and Bases of original Cloister. ment 
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1 Rites of Durham (Surtees Society, 15), ix., p. 14. 
