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Title: The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Lefroy, William, 1836-1900
Subjects: Abbeys
Publisher: London, Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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rium, or common-room, have been west of the refectory—the obvioussituation for the buttery, and there seems no reasonwhy the large room at the south-east corner of thecloister-court—sometimes called theAbbots hall —should not have been, as its situation at oncesuggests, the calefactorium.* What has happenedto the frater is in reality this. Originally it wasperfectly normal, having its base abutting on, and itslength at right angles to, the south cloister. Then itbecame necessary or desirable to enlarge it ; and thiswas done by throwing down the wall between fraterand kitchen, and so producing an L-shaped room. Thenew kitchen to the south of the open yard, or garth,was the natural accompaniment of this alteration. Between the cellarium and the west walk of thecloister was a wide passage communicating directly * East of the kitchen, too, is not the buttery but, surely, thenecessarium of the monks ; that of the conversi being plainlythe large western building miscalled the granary.
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I Kirkstall and Roche. 37 with the church, and used, no doubt, by the con-versi, whose intercourse with the outer world wasnecessarily more frequent than that of the fratresclerici. A similar passage exists at Beaulieu, andmay, it is thought, be traced at Byland. It seemsto have been adopted from the original houses ofCiteaux and Clairvaux. But it is time to say a few words about theInfirmary. This was the building which it was thehabit of the Cistercians to erect last of all ; and itwas also the one in respect of which their usageunderwent the most important change. The In-firmary was not only the temporary refuge of thesick, but the permanent home of the old and feeble. aisles,* and in both there seems to have been, notearlier than the fifteenth century, an effort to makethings more comfortable by partitioning off theseaisles and dividing them into separate living rooms.At Fountains, not only this hall, but the chapel andkitchen to the east of it, can be clearly traced, as wellas a

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