228 Lacock Abbey. 
wall of the latter, in which are the jambs and arch of a large 
window now built up. The side walls were raised 2? feet and a 
new roof put on. The roof still remains, though mutilated by later 
alterations, and is divided into fourteen bays by framed tie-beam 
principals, supporting two purlins on each side, with two arched 
and feathered wind-braces in each division. All the main timbers 
and the wind-braces are wrought, and have hollow chamfered 
angles. 
After the suppression a long gallery was constructed in the roof 
over the tie-beams. The collar beams of the principals were all 
removed and the lower purlins and wind-braces in the second, sixth, 
eighth, tenth, and twelfth bays from the south on the east side, 
and the third and thirteenth bays on the west were taken out to | 
form large dormer windows to light the gallery. The external 
walls were practically removed by the insertion of large windows 
and fireplaces, 
All evidence of monastic arrangement internally is covered up 
by plastering and wainscoting. There would doubtless be a centre 
passage lighted by the large window in the north gable. 
Opening off the centre passage on either side would be the 
cubicles of the canonesses and novices, the doors of which were to 
be “‘ witheoute lokkes or keys’’ and “‘ ther beddes schal be made of 
bordes faste nayled togyder and stuffed with straw and they schal 
have as many clothes up on them as nede requyrethe after the 
discrecion of the souereyne.” ! 
Tue Rere-Dorter. 
At the north end of the eastern range is a large two-storied 
building with its axis east and west. The upper floor, on the 
same level as the dorter, was the necessarium or rere-dorter of the 
convent. 
The lower story consists of a long wagon-vaulted chamber to 
the south, occupying about two-thirds of the width of the building, 
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1 Aungier, Hist. of Sion, p. 385, appendix. 
