The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire . storied houses andgardens, in front of which is a continuous pentice. Turning to the left on entering the outer court,and passing along the back of the range of buildingsalready referred to as a farm-house, we find, in thenorth-west corner, an unmistakable kitchen, beyondwhich again are two massive buttresses against a Greens English People. O 5° The Ruined Abbeys of Yorkshire. blank wall. Eastward, and beyond the doorway tothe inner cloister, we come to the nave of the is so short that it forms, with the transepts andchoir, a reversed Latin cross—t
The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire . storied houses andgardens, in front of which is a continuous pentice. Turning to the left on entering the outer court,and passing along the back of the range of buildingsalready referred to as a farm-house, we find, in thenorth-west corner, an unmistakable kitchen, beyondwhich again are two massive buttresses against a Greens English People. O 5° The Ruined Abbeys of Yorkshire. blank wall. Eastward, and beyond the doorway tothe inner cloister, we come to the nave of the is so short that it forms, with the transepts andchoir, a reversed Latin cross—the choir, instead ofthe nave, being the long arm. Immediately east ofthe transept are the remains of the tower, throughwhich, by a rather narrow passage under lofty arches,the choir is reached. The entire absence of aisles issignificant of the simplicity of ritual which admittedno processions. Only the north wall of the choirremains, though there are sufficient indications ofmasonry on the south. East and south of the church,. DOOR LEADING FROM THE OUTER COURT TO THE INNER CLOISTER ATMOUNT GRACE PRIORY. at a short distance, there seem to be traces of cellsand gardens like those which surround the innercloister. They were apparently four in number, twoon the east, where the cells must have been, so tospeak, semi-detached, and two on the south, wherethe garden intervened in the more normal way. Therest of the eastern side of the court was screened fromthe stream and the rising hill by a wall and passagecommunicating with the southern hospitium. At the north-east corner of the church was,perhaps, the chapter-house ; and abutting againstthe north walls of the transept and nave are re-mains of what may, with more certainty, be calledthe priors house. But the most interesting partof the monastery has yet to be noticed. On the outer side of the north wall of the priors houseis an undeniable lavatory, which, though not situ-ated like those of the Cistercians close to theentrance of
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