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corbels. Originally it was entered from the cloister by a wide 
pointed segmental-arched doorway of two chamfered orders, with 
- nook shafts in the jambs similar to the other doorways. - In the 
15th century, when the new cloister was built, the west jamb was 
destroyed and a smaller doorway, with a moulded four-centred 
arch, inserted in the older opening. The east jamb remains, 
although walled up, and retains traces of its original coloured 
“mason” decoration. The north end of the passage had a wide 
pointed segmental-arched doorway of a single chamfered order which 
has been much mutilated by later insertions, now removed. On 
the east side, in the first bay from the south, is the original entrance 
to the warming-house already described, and in the other bay is a 
wide buttress-like projection forming the back of the warming- 
house fireplace. Opposite this in the west wall is a shouldered 
doorway that led to the western division of the basement. This 
_ passage was probably used as the inner parlour, where any necessary 
_ talking was allowed between the inmates. 
The western division of the basement is a low vaulted cellar 
divided into two aisles, four bays in length, and supported in the 
centre on plain octagonal pillars, without caps, and against the 
walls on moulded corbels. There was apparently no direct means 
of access to this cellar from the cloister. All the original features 
of the north wall are obliterated by modern casing externally and 
plaster internally. The western severy of the south alley was 
occupied by a staircase leading up from the cloister to the frater ; 
the original arrangement of which has been entirely obliterated. 
The door from the cloister to this staircase was of two members 
similar to that to the infirmary passage already described. It was 
considerably encroached upon in the 15th century by the new 
cloister, and since the suppression the western jamb and arch have 
been destroyed by the insertion of a passage leading to the kitchen 
and cellar. 
The frater itself was a large hall with open timber roof, 80 feet 
long by 27 feet wide, but after the suppression it was divided up 
into rooms and passages, so that all indications of its monastic 
gements are lost. It would have at the east end a raised 
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