574 Stanley Ahhcy. 



whole of the outer walls were possibly of tlie twelfth century/ and 

 as in the case of Jervaulx and Kirkstall, which were also houses 

 removed from elsewhere, this was perhaps the first tiling built, in 

 order to accommodate the lay -brothers, wlio apparently lielped 

 with the building works. In the thirteenth century the entry 

 and frater were vaulted, either for the first time or the old vaults 

 were renewed, as the ribs and columns are of that date.. 



Over the whole range was, in the first place, the dorter of the 

 lay-brothers, entered by a staircase on the east side, serving for 

 day and niglit uses, as at Kirkstall. In connection with the dorter 

 was a reredorter, of which nothing remains, unless a small piece of 

 wall running northward from the end of the range belonged to it. 



In addition to the buildings described, which surrounded the 

 cloister, there were others as indispensable which must have 

 existed, such as the guest-houses and infirmaries. 



The Monks' Infirm aey. 



The monks' infirmary (infirmatorium monachoriim) was required, 

 not only for the temporary accommodation of the sick, but, as its 

 name implies, for the permanent housing of the infirm who were 

 pliysically unfit to endure the rigorous life of the cloister, and the 

 aged who had been professed fifty years (sevqjedcc). In the 

 Benedictine Order, and among some of the Canons, those who had 

 been let blood (mi/iuti) were allowed to go into the infirmary 

 temporarily after that weakening process, which took place four 

 times in the year, but the Cistercians were allowed no such 

 privilege. 



It consisted of a great hall, a chapel, and a kitchen, and in 

 large establishments, other buildings with the visiting abbot's 

 lodging and the infirmarer's camera. These buildings appear in 

 the first place to have been built of wood, otherwise it is impossible 



' Cellarer's buildings in the twelfth centurj^ were generally built without a 

 structural break from end to end, as at Fountains, Jervaulx, and Kirkstall, 

 but later the cloister entry was considered from the first, as at Beaulieu and 

 Hayles, where its walls are part of the general structure. This latter being 

 the case at Stanley, renders it doubtful if any part of the structure was as 

 early as the twelfth century. 



