. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE dc Lacy, and in i 306 ' a great part' of the abbey and the whole precinct were consecrated by Thomas Bishop of VVhithern.*'* The 'great part' did not include the church, the fratcr or refectory, or the monks' dorter, which were not yet begun. Probably it con- sisted of the north-west gateway, the marking out of the precinct and the plotting of the cloister with its surrounding buildings, and the erection of the lower portion of the south wall of the church, the southern end of the lower stage of the ea
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE dc Lacy, and in i 306 ' a great part' of the abbey and the whole precinct were consecrated by Thomas Bishop of VVhithern.*'* The 'great part' did not include the church, the fratcr or refectory, or the monks' dorter, which were not yet begun. Probably it con- sisted of the north-west gateway, the marking out of the precinct and the plotting of the cloister with its surrounding buildings, and the erection of the lower portion of the south wall of the church, the southern end of the lower stage of the east range, with its external stage, and the reredorter adjoining it. In the succeeding decade it seems likely that a temporary oratory was built, pending the completion of the quire, for a magnum altare was consecrated by a suffragan of Walter de Langton, Bishop of Lichfield, who died in 13 21, before the high altar of the church could have been consecrated. In 1319 the grant of a quarry from Adam de Huddleton indicates building activity. In 1330 Abbot Robert de Topcliffe began the building of the. between the ground stage Whalley Abbky : Dormitory. church,*^'' and further grants of three quarries were made to the abbey in 1334. and I 336. There are no exact data as to the completion of the church, but it would appear to have been finished about i 345. The sacristy was probably built at the same time as the south transept. The tiles in the quire discovered by Whitaker in 1798 appear to have been of the latter half of the 14th century, and John de Kuerdale was buried in the new church in 1345. In 13 39 a licence was obtained to build and crenellate a stone precinct wall. From 1339 to 1425 building operations around the cloister were continuous. The frater and kitchens, forming the south side, were followed late in the 14th century by the chapter-house, adjoining the sacristy on the south, and another chamber to the south again, completing the east side of the cloister. Next the u
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