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Title: Church and conventual arrangement. With copious references, a complete glossary, and an index. And illustrated by a series of ground-plans and plates of the arrangements of churches in different countries and at successive periods, and of the conventual plans adopted by the various orders
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Walcott, Mackenzie E. C. (Mackenzie Edward Charles), 1821-1880
Subjects: Church architecture Convents
Publisher: London, Atchley and Co
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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wall of thechoir. The abbots house, outer school, and guest-house lieparallel to the north transept and north nave-aisle. To theeast of the church are the garden, cemetery, infirmary, andnovices house; to the south is the cloister, with the dormitoryon the east, the refectory on the south, and the cellarage witha larder above it on the west. The poor mans hospice, com-posed of chambers enclosing a common-room, fronts the guest-house. To the west and south were farm-buildings andworkshops. The hospice for stranger monks had a commonroom and a dormitory. The guest-house comprised a largerefectory, sleeping chambers, stables, servants rooms, anddomestic offices. The almoners rooms were on the north-westside, those of the porter on the south-west of the church. Theouter school, to which a masters house was attached, contained 1 Monasticon, iv. 39. 2 Bloomfields Norfolk, iii. 67. 3 Fosbrooke, Brit. Mon. 112 \ Fleury, v. 207, 213, xxiii. 14, 19; Monas-ticon, i. pref. ST GALLS ABBEY. p. 112.
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Ref er f 3 n c e A. East Choir 0 A. Double. Apses Church/ P B . Ecce/iras Q B. Earvises R c. Altar S . S D . 1onb T E . West Chair V ~F. Attars u G-. Sacn^rty w H Scrip lor item < X I. Entrances z J. Abbote Lodge a a K D? Xijtcherv h h L . School- c M Servants Quarters a truest House, e OfTum and/ WorkshopsDormitory and Cale/ctoJrifirrrtasry Kitchens Gurdestv J R Jabliins St Gall—Canterbury. 113 a large room, parted by a screen, and opening on the bed-roomsof the scholars. The infirmary and novices house each com-prised a cloister, refectory, dormitory, and a chapel, whichseparated the two courts. The abbots lodge, of two storeys,contained in the base tier his sitting and bed-rooms, underhis solar and oratory. The servants house was detached.Between the church and the cellarage were the parlour andvestibule for the reception of visitors, and giving orders toservants. In the sacristy the lower storey contained presses,chests, and the altar plate; the upper room held the vestments,

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