570 Stanley Abbey . 



The fragment of the buttress consisted of a deep splayed course, 

 resting on a small chamfered plinth with two courses of ashlar 

 beneath. Above the top course was a moulded string-course of 

 which a small fragment was found, though afterwards mislaid. 



Cistercian fraters in this country were always covered by open 

 timber roofs, but in France they were generally vaulted. At the 

 opposite end to the door from the cloister was a raised dais for the 

 high table and down the sides were arranged the monks' seats,with 

 tables in front, with those for the novices at the lower end. In 

 the west wall was a pulpit from which the reader for the week read 

 portions of scripture during meals, and further down in the same 

 wall was a hatch for handing in the food from the kitchen. There 

 was usually a small sink for washing up the spoons and drinking 

 vessels, which were kept in a locker inside the door from the 

 cloister. 



The Kitchen. 



The kitchen {coquincc) in the first place adjoined the frater on 

 the west, but was subsequently altered. 



As already stated, there was a court 26 feet wide to the west of 

 the cloister, between it and the western range. This at first was 

 closed at the north end by a wall, in which was a large pointed 

 arch of two members, springing at 18 inches above the ground, 

 and flanked externally by buttresses with a chamfered plinths. 

 Eastward of this, in the original kitchen, was a cupboard 26^ inclies 

 wide and 27 inches deep, with its sill only 14 inches above the 

 floor. The jambs remained 23 inches in height and at 17 inches 

 was a wooden shelf, above which was a wooden front let into slots 

 in the jambs on either side. Eastward of this cupboard was the 

 jamb of a doorway to the kitchen from without. 



The kitchen seems to have been altered at the end of the 

 thirteenth century, at which time the wide arch into the court 

 and the doorway just described were walled up. The west wall of 

 the first kitchen was pulled down and a new wall, forming the east 

 side of the later kitchen, was built in its stead. In this wall was a 

 fireplace, the hearth of which remained, and was 12 feet wide by 



