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Title: Archaeologia cantiana
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Kent Archaeological Society. cn
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Publisher: (London) Kent Archaeological Society
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west face of this same angle, it is possible that atfirst the closing in of the cloister on the north was only of atemporary character, in view of other changes. But afterthe fire of 1179^ if not before, the cloister was certainly closedby a wall of a more durable kind. Nearly half this wall wasdestroyed when the new quire transept was built out early inthe thirteenth century, and what was left east of that seems * Charter penes Dec. et Cap.; and Thorpe, Registrum Roffiense, 633. f Heryas prior .... partem claustri versus dormitorium plumbare fecit. .... Lavatorium et hostium refectorii fieri fecit Cendulam unde claustrum versus refectorium coopertum est emit. Cott. MS. Vespasian A. 22, f. 90; andThorpe, Registrum Roffense, 122. ST. ANDREW AT ROCHESTER. 31 to have been rebuilt in the fourteenth century. But thesection west of the transept has escaped through later workhaving been built upon it.* This section is 32 feet long.At a height of about 16 feet from the ground it is crossed by
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Pig. 39.—Doorway fkom the Cloistee into the Church. the original string-course, above which the wall is continued2 feet higher. Just below the string-course are the remainsof the corbels that carried the wall-plate of the cloister roof.The lower part of the wall has in its western end an inserted * See ArchcBologia Cantiana, XXIII. 252. 32 CATHEDRAL CHURCH AND MONASTERY OF doorway of the beginning* of the fourteenth century, whichwas the usual way by which the monks had access to thechurch by day. The doorway is of the same date as the quiredoor, etc. but has the hood-mold ornamented with four-leavedflowers (Fig. 39). To the east of the doorway there is nowvisible only a rubble wall, but closer examination shews tracesof two large openings, now blocked, with depressed pointedheads. The westernmost is backed within the church by atrefoil-headed recess (see Fig. 28), and the easternmost* bytwo round-headed recesses, now blocked, but at a much higherlevel. The top of a similar blocked

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