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narrow ogee-headed lights inserted. The east gable of the re- 

 fectory rests upon the W. wall. 



A very ruinous apartment, called the Library in Morton's plan, 

 but which may possibly have been either the Hospitium or Guest 

 Hall, terminates the eastern range or wing of the monastic 

 buildings on the south. Of its W. wall there remains only a 

 fragment of the base ; the S. wall has completely disappeared ; 

 but a considerable portion of the E. elevation is left, containing 

 two round-headed windows, with the usual wide splay within, 

 but externally of two orders — the outer square-edged, the inner 

 chamfered. Over each is a label, ornamented with the indented 

 moulding below, and a line of small pellets on the face, and 

 terminating at each side in a short, horizontal return. (Fig. 26.) 



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Fig. 26. 



Fig. 27. 



Like the parlour, this room has had a groined vault. There 

 have been apartments, probably dormitories, above it also ; and 

 the Buttery of the abbey is said to have been at the north end 

 of these, above the passage last mentioned. 



Broad buttresses of small projection are carried rather more 

 than half-way up the E. wall of the buildings to the south of the 

 chapter-house, at intervals along its entire length ; and there are 

 remains of a corbel-table along the wall-top. (Fig. 27.) 



The Refectory was upwards of 80 feet long, and about 25 

 feet wide, and stood, as has been already stated, on the south 

 side of the cloisters, parallel to the nave. It is said, in the 

 account given in Grose's Antiquities, to have been tolerably 

 entire when Pennant visited the abbey in 1769, and to have been 

 supported by two pillars ; but it is evident from Slezer's draw- 

 ing of ttie ruins, made very nearly a century before, that this is 

 a mistake, and that the refectory was then in much the 

 same condition as it is now, except that the side walls were 



