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is the other, from which it was divided by a wall 3 ft. in thickness, 

 low destroyed. This chamber is of three bays, but has only two 

 windows to the north, the middle bay being blank with a buttress 

 [n the middle of it and not opposite the vault springers. There 

 were no windows in the east wall or the bay and a half which 

 remains of the south side, and, like its companion, it has no sign 

 of any entrance. 



At present both chambers are filled with rubbish almost to the 

 the springing of the vaulting, and are used for a brushing room, 

 and housing fuel. 



Of the superstructure nothing whatever remains. There is a 

 wall 5 J ft. thick, in line southward of the east end of the subvault 

 in which is a segmental-headed doorway of a single member. To 

 the north of this doorway in the thickness of the wall is the pit of 

 a garderobe from an upper floor, Eastward from this runs a thick 

 wall for 31 ft., having a chamfered plinth on its north face some 

 8 ft. below the level of the ground, but nothing could be found of 

 the south wall of the apartment. 



The style of the subvault suggests that the building was part of 

 the infirmary built from the foundations 1 by Abbat William of 

 ■Colerne, but its position adjoining the dorter indicates that its 

 upper story was the reredorter of the monks. Both surmises may 

 '. be correct, as the reredorter at Worcester, built a hundred years 

 before, was certainly so arranged in connexion with the infirmary. 



The Abbat's Lodging. 



Somewhere on the east side of the precinct was the abbat's 

 lodging, for Abbat William of Colerne recovered two messuages 

 ^lext the abbat's garden and planted them with vines, and made 

 an herbarium towards the king's wall. 2 This portion of the king's 

 wall is that which was to be repaired by the almoner, namely, from 

 the abbat's garden to the court of the Lord John (Maudit). 3 The 

 jabbat's lodging was built by William of Colerne, who " next the 

 abbat's garden made a great and honest hall covered with stone 

 .vith a lesser hall towards the gable of the same hall, and of the 



1 See Appendix I. - Ibid. 3 Beg. Malmes., i. 136. 



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