238 Lacock Abbey. 
erect in a posture of pronouncing Benediction to the Nunns of this Abbey 
passing by. On the Right hand in y* same Window of this Representacon of 
Saint Austin was another Bishop Represented w*' his pastoral staff. Over both 
w‘" in the same Glass is seen a St. Bartholmew w his Knife in his hand.” 
The other “ Bishop” Dingley did not 
identify was probably St. Bernard, in whose 
honour, jointly with the Blessed Virgin 
Mary, the abbey was dedicated. 
The internal arrangements of this chapel 
have long since been obliterated. As the vice 
communicating with the church enters at the 
south-west corner, the western part would 
be divided off by a screen, so that when the 
staircase was being used it would not be 
necessary to pass through the chapel. The 
top of the newel of the vice is carved into a 
spirited grotesque swallowing the end of the 
newel. 
Over the rest of the south alley of the 
cloister was a low passage between the chapel 
and the dorter, lighted by small, square, 
Window tus alsiedeld cibber two-light windows! with cusped heads over 
Fett hcats in olaae eect. each bay of the cloister. The second, fourth, 
ae et and sixth from the east have been destroyed 
by the insertion of larger windows, but one of the heads was found 
perfect in the blocking of the eastern cloister door. ‘The first, 
third, and fifth were walled up so as to carefully conceal their 
Fig. 8. 
existence. These alterations were effected in the 16th century and 
at the same time the gallery was raised about 5 feet. The passage 
was used by the abbess in passing from the dorter to her lodging, 
after solemnly commending the convent to the care of the Almighty 
before they retired to their beds. In the early days of all monastic 
orders the superior had to sleep in dorter with the convent, so that 
it is easily understood why there was no separate accommodation 
for the abbess at Lacock till the end of the 14th century. 
1 These windows had rebates for shutters as well as grooves for glass. 
