224 Lacock Abbey. 
In the east wall of the range in the cloister between the infirmary — 
passage and the return wall of the north range were two trefoiled- 
headed recesses rebated for doors, with sills 16 inches above the — 
floor. These would be used for the accommodation of books. In 
the 14th century the northern recess was cut down, the head altered 
to a pointed arch, and made into a doorway through the wall. 4 
Tae Warminc-Hovst. 
Northward of the infirmary passage was the warming or common | 
house.! 
This was not entered directly from the cloister, as was usually 
the case, but from a passage under the east end of the frater, which 
will be described later. It is divided into two aisles of four bays 
each by three columns down the centre. The vaulting is of semi- 
octagonal ribs and seems to have been completed at the same time } 
as the side walls, against which it was supported on moulded and 
carved corbels. The central columns are cylindrical with moulded 
caps, and have been underpinned at an uncertain date, and the 
bases renewed. 
The east wall has in the three southern bays wide pointed 
segmental rere-arches for the windows, with hollow chamfers on 
the angle. 
The tracery was removed in the 16th century and small two-light 
square-headed windows inserted in the openings, except in the 
second bay from the south, which was blocked by the sub-structure 
for a fire-place of that date.? These in turn were removed in the 
18th century and the sills cut down to the ground. Each window 
recess had a double window-seat on a step 18 inches from the © 
ground, and probably another step in front projecting into the 
room. Externally each bay is divided by a plain square buttress 
with two sets-off in its height, resting on a small chamfered plinth. 
The original outer arches of the windows and the jambs remain. 
1“ Not far from the chirche they schall have a fyre-howse or chawfying _ 
hows wher they may warme them in wynter.”—drundel M.S.S., 146. — 
Vide Aungier’s Hist. of Sion, p. 296, appendix. ‘ 
? Shown on Buck’s view, already referred to 
