SHERBORNE MEETING. Iv. 



the long ramble the refreshment was very grateful. The 

 PRESIDENT afterwards, on behalf of the Club, heartily thanked 

 Mr. and Mrs. Digby for their kindness and hospitality. Brakes 

 then arrived from the Digby Hotel to drive the party to the 

 station to catch their trains. 



PLAN OF THE ANCIENT ABBEY OF SHERBORNE. 



The plan of the domestic buildings of the old Abbey shews 

 the usual arrangement of the monastic offices about a cloister 

 garth, but the relative positions of church and cloister are 

 reversed : instead of the cloister being on the south side of the 

 church, as at Salisbury and elsewhere, at Sherborne, as at 

 Canterbury, it is on the north side of it. 



In the plan ancient buildings, still existing, or existing up to 

 1853, are represented in black ; walls hatched are restorations of 

 buildings which have disappeared. The gardens of the Abbey 

 were south of the Refectory, and the Fishponds were probably 

 on the N.W. side and the mill a little further west. The site 

 marked in the plan " Infirmary " and " Hall " has never been 

 properly explored, and, as it is now partially covered by the 

 Head-Master's house, further exploration is impossible. Some 

 of the foundations of these buildings have been seen by persons 

 still living, but this delineation of them can only be regarded as 

 probable. 



ABBOT'S HALL. 



In the print now reproduced it will be seen that the dormer 

 windows are gone and windows in 1 5th century style inserted in 

 the ancient walls in place of the square-headed windows. These 

 changes were made between 1851 and 1855, i n which year the 

 Abbot's Hall was dedicated as a school chapel by Bishop 

 Hamilton to St. John the Evangelist. In 1865 it was extended 

 two bays westward. 



