252 THE GROUND-PLAN OF BURTON ABBEY. 
two, the outer half being the entrance into the Abbot’s 
house. Next we might find the lavatory as at West- 
minster: at Durham the lavatory stood in the middle of the 
cloister garth as a separate building. We learn from the 
Rites that the north part of this walk was the school for 
the novices, and we often find a curious illustration of this 
where the stone bench exists in the cloisters of our old 
abbeys and cathedrals that have been abbeys, for if you 
look carefully you will find g holes 3 °° thus, at West- 
minster you may see them very ogo plainly, and I 
have notes of them at many other places. I don’t know 
if the game is played by the children in Burton, but, in 
many places, it is played to this day by children with three 
pebbles, and I believe goes by the name of Knockings, in 
and out, and these are no doubt the work of the novices 
in their spare moments; the Rites describe the school, the 
novices sat on the bench against the garth side and their 
master on that against the wall. 
Shaw’s plan shows a door leading into the Abbot’s house, 
which seems to have occupied the whole of this side. It 
is a great misfortune that this was not thoroughly explored, 
and the chance has gone for ever of so doing, the site being 
under the Market Hall. We find William Bromley, 131€- 
1329, gave the convent the long building near the church 
gate, this may mean he built the long range of the Abbot’s 
house, as these are the only buildings near that part. 
John Ibstock, Abbot 1348-1366, built the Abbot’s private 
chamber between the great hall and the outward chamber 
of the same, and we are able to fix where this lay, for 
there is a projecting chamber which we may safely take to 
be the outward chamber, and this would bring the Abbot’s 
private chamber close to the parlour and entrance. Thomas 
Field, 1472-1493, is also mentioned as building the Abbot’s 
private chamber. This brings us to 
THE NORTH WALK, 
