[78] The woodcut on a preceding page (23) is from another initial letter of the same book.
[79] A room adjoining the hall, to which the fellows retire after dinner to take their wine and converse.
[80] The ordinary fashion of the time was to sleep without any clothing whatever.
[81] In the plan of the ninth-century Benedictine monastery of St. Gall, published in the Archæological Journal for June, 1848, the dormitory is on the east, with the calefactory under it; the refectory on the south, with the clothes-store above; the cellar on the west, with the larders above. In the plan of Canterbury Cathedral, a Benedictine house, as it existed in the latter half of the twelfth century, the church was on the south, the chapter-house and dormitory on the east, the refectory, parallel with the church, on the north, and the cellar on the west. At the Benedictine monastery at Durham, the church was on the north, the chapter-house and locutory on the east, the refectory on the south, and the dormitory on the west. At the Augustinian Regular Priory of Bridlington, the church was on the north, the fratry (refectory) on the south, the chapter-house on the east, the dortor also on the east, up a stair twenty steps high, and the west side was occupied by the prior’s lodgings.
At the Premonstratensian Abbey of Easby, the church is on the north, the transept, passage, chapter-house, and small apartments on the east, the refectory on the south, and on the west two large apartments, with a passage between them. The Rev. J. F. Turner, Chaplain of Bishop Cozin’s Hall, Durham, describes these as the common house and kitchen, and places the dormitory in a building west of them, at a very inconvenient distance from the church.
[82] Maitland’s “Dark Ages.”
[83] At Winchester School, until a comparatively recent period, the scholars in the summer time studied in the cloisters.
[84] For much curious information about scriptoria and monastic libraries, see Maitland’s “Dark Ages,” quoted above.
[85] The hall of the Royal Palace of Winchester, erected at the same period, was 111 feet by 55 feet 9 inches.