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with lead on wood framing, the corbels for which still appear 

 on the south wall of the church, and the east and west having 

 been below the upper storey of two storey buildings, that 

 on the east being the dorter range. 



Clarkson in his survey refers to the southernmost part 

 of this range as ' one howse called the women howse wherein 

 is two chambers with one chimley.' Mr St. John Hope 

 says; "if by 'women' we may read ' wormen,' the fireplace 

 would indicate that this was the calefactoriwm or wanning 

 house of the brethren. It is, however, uncertain whether the 

 name would be retained thirty years after the suppression, 

 and it is equally possible that before 1567 these rooms 

 had been assigned to the female servants of the lord, 

 who evidently was in the habit of using the place as a 

 dwelling house." 



Leaving the cloister and its surrounding buildings, the old 

 infirmatorium was pointed out, and it was mentioned that 

 recently an interesting " find " of an archway and squints 

 in an internal wall was made, and that one side of this 

 feature had been left bare, the wall being that originally 

 dividing the main hall of the infirmatorium from its chapel. 

 Passing the old byre and barn, now adorned with a sham 

 ruin gable, the " Lord's Tower," built in 1488, was visited, 

 and after noticing the modern gateway in the east side of 

 the old precinct wall the party left the priory through the 

 ancient gatehouse. 



Various references were made to the excavation of founda- 

 tions of old walls made in 1888-9 by the late Duke of 

 Northumberland, under the direction of Mr W. H. St. John 

 Hope, for whom Mr Reavell made the plan, and whose 

 account* of the buildings and their history was acknowledged 

 as the authority of various statements made. 



* Archaeological Joaraal, Vol. xlvii. p. 105, 



