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to be,) had it been at that time connected, as at pre- 
sent, with the great church, its preservation from 
that catastrophe would be irreconcilable with the 
statement above made ; butif we suppose, that until 
the erection of the ante-chapel in the 13th century, 
it was a distincet and separate building, the difficulty 
disappears ; for though we are told that a great part 
of the abbey, as well as the church, was destroyed 
by the conflagration, I have no where found it 
stated that the chapel dedicated to St. Joseph of 
Arimathzsa, which certainly existed from very early 
times, was included in the destruction. 
Of the domestic buildings of the abbey nothing re- 
mains but the great kitchen, the porter’s lodge, and 
the abbey barn, all three of much later date than the 
church. It is said that the kitchen was built by 
Richard Whiting, the last abbot of Glastonbury, 
in the reign of king Henry VIII; but this can 
hardly be the case, for (setting aside the improba- 
bility of such a man as Richard Whiting expending 
the wealth of his abbey upon a magnificent kitchen, 
at a time when he must have known that destruc- 
tion was hanging over the whole establishment,) 
the style and details of the building seem rather to 
indicate the end of the 14th and the beginning of 
the 15th centuries, as the date ofits erection ; and it 
seems probable that it is the work of abbot Breyn- 
ton, who, amongst other domestic buildings, is said 
to have built a kitchen some time in the latter part 
of the 14th century. 
