248 THE GROUND-PLAN OF BURTON ABBEY. 
have nothing to guide us in locating the sites of the chapels, 
but the usual places where such occur. 
We leave by the Cloister door of the Upper Church the 
way the Monks entered and left except when they came to 
the night offices; they would then enter by the night stairs 
from the Dorter: these are usually to be found in the 
South Transept; we are now in 
THE CLOISTER. 
This was the living place of the monks, and, in the early 
days, consisted of an arcade, open on all sides to the 
cloister garth, and roofed with a lean-to against the various 
buildings. Entering the cloister from the church by the 
door of the upper church, which was found in the excava- 
tions, (plate II, fig. 2), we might expect to find on our left 
hand the common book case, in Norman work, which we 
should have here; it was usually a large arched recess in 
the transept wall. We come next to a doorway shewn on 
Shaw’s plan: this might have led into the Treasury, or, as 
the “Rites” say, ‘‘ The Register, wherein certain old written 
Books of Records and Evidences did lye”; which would 
most likely be divided, the Sacristy being to the east, and 
having a door into the south transept. We next come to 
THE CHAPTER HOUSE, 
the door of which was discovered in 1850 by Mr. Robert 
Thornewill; the original chapter house would be Norman, 
and, most likely, have an apsidal termination; the present 
doorway we are able to see to this day at the back of the 
Market Hall, and we have the dates of the work from the 
Chronicle, which tells us that Robert Longden, Abbot, 
1329-1340, rebuilt the chapter house from the foundation to 
the middle height, and Robert Brickhull, his successor, 
finished the work. How far he altered the rest of the 
building can only be settled by excavation in the Abbey 
ground; very likely the apsidal terminations were done 
away with, and the old chapter house made a vestibule to 
