By Harold Brakspcar, F.S.A. 573 



east side was in line witli the west end of the church. It was 

 divided into two apartments with the entry to the cloister between. 



This entry was 11^ feet wide, paved with hard stone flags at a 

 higher level than the rest of the range, and was vaulted in two 

 bays with moulded ribs, of which one of the apex stones was found. 

 At either end was a doorway,the eastern of which retained the inner 

 south jamb for two courses, togetlier with the re-entering quoins 

 of the adjoining angle. The north and south walls also remained 

 to the floor-level. 



Southward of the entry the range was occupied by a cellar 58 

 feet long, divided into four bays, with a row of pillars down the 

 middle, and vaulted with square ribs having narrow chamfers. 

 The bottom course of the northernmost pillar was found, though 

 partly destroyed ; it was octagonal, 3-i inches across, and had no 

 base. Only the foundations of the other pillars remained. At 

 the south end, in line with the pillars, was a fragment of a wall 

 18 inches thick, stopped with a fair end 4i- feet from the place of 

 the first pillar. The east wall of the cellar remained for almost 

 its whole length, and a fragment of the west wall was also found. 



Northward of the entry the range formed a chamber 66 feet 

 long, of which the inner face of the west wall, a considerable part 

 of the east, and the whole of the north wall remained. It was 

 divided into five bays, with a row of columns down the middle, 

 and A^aulted with moulded ribs. The columns were circular, 14 

 inches in diameter, and the moulded bases of all but the northern- 

 most remained in position. The chamber was paved with rouo-h 

 tiles. At the second and fourth columns were cross walls, 30 inches 

 thick, but whether of monastic date is uncertain. This chaml^er 

 was used in the first place as the lay-brothers' frater, served from 

 the monks' kitchen. Externally the north end of the range had 

 pilaster buttresses at the angles and in the middle, but all the 

 quoins had been removed. The east wall was unbroken by but- 

 tresses of any kind and the west wall was so fragmentary that it 

 is impossible to say how it was treated. 



It is difficult definitely to ascribe a date to the range, but from 

 the occurrence of the pilaster buttresses at the north end the 



