568 Stanley Abhey. 



with bedding thereon, a little cupboard, and a table for writing, 

 and the said chambers are ornamented and furnished with beautiful 

 pictures upon canvas, and tables relating to the devotion of each 

 religious. In each of the doors of these chambers is a window of 

 two divisions, by which each religious, going by the dorters, is able 

 to see his companion in his chamber. In the middle of the dorter 

 is a large cupboard, in which are the copes, chasubles, and other 

 ornaments of the church, which are in great number and very rich."^ 



The novices would probably be accommodated in the end furthest 

 from the church, as already described at Clairvaulx, which was 

 also the arrangement at the Benedictine house of Durham. In 

 both cases, and doubtless generally, the novices used the ordinary 

 day and night stairs, and had no separate approach from tlieir 

 other apartments. 



The Eeeedoeter. 



On the west side of the range a deep sinking marks the position 

 of the main drain of the abbey, and on the opposite side are 

 sinkings for the walls of the reredorter, set slightly out of square 

 with the range, but including the track of the drain along its north 

 side. A small fragment of the north wall was found, but all else 

 had been grubbed up. 



The building, from its position over the drain and its contiguity 

 to the dorter, was the reredorter of the monks. It was usually 

 approached directly from the dorter and had a row of seats, parted 

 off from one another, along the side over the drain. Nothing 

 remained at Stanley to show if the subvault of the reredorter was 

 the novices' infirmary, as at Clairvaulx and Netley. 



' Didron, Annates Archeologiques, 228 . . . " et sont faictes de 

 menuiserie, seulement, contenant, de longueur, de sept k huict piedz et, de 

 largeui-, six piedz, en toutes lequelles y a ung chalit, le lict dessus, ung petit 

 comptoire et ung poulpitre pour escripre, et sont lesdictes chambres, ornees 

 et accoutrees de belle ymagies en toille et tableau selon la devotion d'ung 

 chacun religieuls. 



" Item En chacun des huisse d'icelles chambres y a una fenestra a deux 

 bareaux, par laquelle ung chacun religieulx, allantpar les dortoirs, peult veoir 

 son compaignon en sa ehambre ; . . . 



" Item, Au milieu dudict dortoir y a des grandes armaires es-quelles sont 

 les chappes, chasubles et autres ornemens de I'eglise, qui sont en grand nombre 

 et tres riches." 



