BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



WHALLEY 



many chapels. The south wall of the transept has a 

 doorway to the sacristy. A night-stair descends in 

 the south-west angle of the transept from the dorter. 

 In the exterior of the west wall are two book-closets, 

 and a third in the exterior of the sacristy west wall, 

 which is continuous with that of the transept. Beside 

 it is a door from the cloister to the sacristy with 

 shallow continuous mouldings. The interior parti- 

 tions of the range have disappeared. A wide door- 

 way with a series of continuous hollow chamfers, of 

 which two are filled with flat flower ornaments, is 

 flanked by two pointed two-light windows with a 

 quatrefoil in the head, and shafted jambs. This door- 

 way led to the chapter-house, or more probably to a 

 vestibule opening into the chapter-house, as in the 

 opposite (eastern) wall of the range is a corresponding 

 doorway, with a moulded rear arch and shafted 

 exterior jambs, which is contemporary with the 

 building. If this is so, however, all trace of 

 the chapter-house itself is lost. To the south of the 

 chapter-house group of door and windows on the 

 cloister side is another doorway, of the same height, 

 but narrower, moulded with three hollow chamfers, 

 which entered a room, probably the parlour, as there 

 seem to b; traces of a fireplace on its south side. It 

 has a three-light window in the east wall, which 

 appears to replace an original doorway. In the walls 

 of the remainder of the ground stage are various open- 

 ings not corresponding to one another in the two 

 walls. On the cast side are four two-light windows, 

 and in the middle, backing against a buttress between 

 the second and third windows, was a fireplace ; last, 

 to the south is a doorway opening to a dog-leg passage, 

 lighted on the north, south and east by loops, which 

 leads to the reredorter. In the south wall was a wide 

 three-light window, now converted into a door. The 

 south-west angle has right-angled buttresses, and there 

 are two more buttresses on the west wall, between the 

 angle and the south wall of the dorter-daystair, with 

 three two-light windows between them. All along 

 the interior of the east wall are plain corbels, at a 

 height to support an upper floor, just clearing the 

 heads of the chapter-house and parlour doors. In 

 the southern portion of the range another row of 

 corbels at a lower level perhaps indicates an original 

 intention to vault the ground stage, abandoned 

 as the work proceeded further northward. Above 

 the floor level of the upper stage are indications 

 of window openings, but the walls of this stage, 

 which stand to about one-third of their original 

 height, are so overgrown as to render reconstruction 

 impossible. 



The door leading from the east end of the south 

 wall of the cloister to the dorter stairs, which are 

 now gone, is high and pointed with shafted jambs, 

 and has a moulded hood mould like that of all the 

 openings on the cloister side of the east range. Next 

 to it is a much smaller plain pointed doorway, pro- 

 bably that of the warming-house, which is, however, 

 wholly gone, though a small broken spur of wall just 

 to the west of it on the south side of the wall may 

 indicate its western, and the continuation of the south 

 wall of the dorter stair its southern limit. Again, 

 to the west of this doorway, m the south wall of the 

 cloister, which stands to about lo ft. for its whole 

 length, is a wide segmental-headed recess with con- 

 tinuous mouldings, which was the lavatory. Nothing 

 remains of the frater, but if it followed the usual 



Cistercian plan it ran southward from about the 

 middle of the south cloister wall. The doorway, 

 about two-thirds westward of the length of the wall, 

 would then be either a direct entrance to it, as at 

 Waverley, or may have opened to a lobby or 

 stair to an upper story, the latter being likely 

 if, as in other instances, a misericorde was placed 

 in the ground stage. At the western end of this side 

 is another doorway, which would lead to a kitchen 

 court, the kitchens being in the destroyed southern 

 portion of the west range, of which only two but- 

 tresses and two windows remain. The whole range 

 from this angle to the south wall of the church is 

 complete, and consists of a building of two stages 

 with seven buttresses on the west wall, having a 

 window between the southernmost pair in each stage, 

 a door with a window above between the next two, 

 and one window in each stage between each succeed- 

 ing pair of buttresses, making thirteen windows and 

 a door in all on the west. All the windows are of 

 two trefoiled lights in segmental heads with hood 

 moulds, and all are now blocked up to the tracery, 

 the muUions being gone. The southernmost is con- 

 verted into a door, and the fourth from the north is 

 quite gone, a large rectangular opening in the wall 

 occupying its position. The original door, which 

 formed the principal entrance to the cloister from 

 without, has a moulded two-centred arch and jamb- 

 shafts. A roughly moulded plinth runs at the sill 

 level of the windows. On the cloister side are no 

 buttresses, but in the upper stage are, or were, 

 windows like those on the west. A door in the east 

 wall opposite that in the west indicates that this 

 portion formed a passage through the range. Another 

 door, opposite the second window from the north in 

 the west wall, suggests the position of a partition to the 

 south of it occupying about one-third of the ground 

 stage. The remainder was probably the cellarium, 

 or possibly the frater of the servants, there being 

 most likely no conversi. The upper stage was pro- 

 bably at this date the servants' dorter, or may have 

 been used for storage. 



The ' Abbot's Lodging ' is of two principal dates, 

 with 17th-century additions at the north-west. It 

 consists of a central court with north and east sides 

 consisting of the 16th-century building of Abbot 

 Paslew. The east and north sides are still occupied. 

 A modern bay window has been added to the north 

 end of the east part, but the rest retains its 16th- 

 century character, having a small four-centred door- 

 way (which has a modern sash window over it), three 

 four-light square-headed windows in the lower stage, 

 and three large five-light square-headed windows in 

 the upper story, all with two transoms. Projecting 

 eastward at the southern end is a building of two 

 stages, which contained two chambers on each floor 

 communicating with one another and having traceried 

 windows of early 15th-century character. This 

 formed part of the old infirmary, and probably con- 

 tained its chapel. The old south range is much 

 ruined and built over, but the portion abutting on 

 the south end of the present house contains one 

 large chamber and has several three-light windows in 

 square heads. 



At the south-west angle a block known as the 

 ' Abbot's Kitchen ' projects over the watercourse. 

 In its interior west wall are a wide low recess and a 

 vice leading to a garderobe. In the south wall are 



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