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La cock Abbey. 



erect in a posture of pronouncing Benediction to the Nunns of this Abbey 

 passing by. On the Eight hand in y e same Window of this Eepresentacon of 

 Saint Austin was another Bishop Kepresented w th his pastoral staff. Over both 

 w ch in the same Glass is seen a St. Bartholmew w th his Knife in his hand." 



The other " Bishop " Dingle y did not 

 identify was probably St. Bernard, in whose 

 honour, jointly with the Blessed Virgin 

 Mary, the abbey was dedicated. 



The internal arrangements of this chapel 

 have long since been obliterated. As the vice 

 communicating with the church enters at the 

 south-west corner, the western part would 

 be divided off by a screen, so that when the 

 staircase was being used it would not be 

 necessary to pass through the chapel. The 

 top of the newel of the vice is carved into a 

 spirited grotesque swallowing the end of the 

 newel. 



Over the rest of the south alley of the 

 cloister was a low passage between the chapel 

 and the dorter, lighted by small, square, 

 w a • > u , two-light windows 1 with cusped heads over 



Window in Abbess s chapel o 



KbfeSs f„ 0 g3dScrib°ed each bay of the cloister. The second, fourth, 

 by Dmgiey. and sixth from the east have been destroyed 



by the insertion of larger windows, but one of the heads was found 

 perfect in the blocking of the eastern cloister door. The first, 

 third, and fifth were walled up so as to carefully conceal their 

 existence. These alterations were effected in the 16th century and 

 at the same time the gallery was raised about 5 feet. The passage 

 was used by the abbess in passing from the dorter to her lodging, 

 after solemnly commending the convent to the care of the Almighty 

 before they retired to their beds. In the early days of all monastic 

 orders the superior had to sleep in dorter with the convent, so that 

 it is easily understood why there was no separate accommodation 

 for the abbess at Lacock till the end of the 14th century. 



1 These windows had rebates for shutters as well as grooves for glass. 



