Balmerino and its abbey : a parish history with notices of the adjacent district . ctory had its axis parallel to one of these sides of thequadrangle. Near the Befectory, cellars for the storage ofjHovisions would be provided. On the west side of the Cloister Garth was doubtlesssituated the long building called Domus —thehouse of the converts or lay-brothers—with their Dormitoryover it. It would probably be connected with the westernpart of the Nave of the Church by a doorway, through whichthey would go to such of the services as they had to seventy years ago, near th
Balmerino and its abbey : a parish history with notices of the adjacent district . ctory had its axis parallel to one of these sides of thequadrangle. Near the Befectory, cellars for the storage ofjHovisions would be provided. On the west side of the Cloister Garth was doubtlesssituated the long building called Domus —thehouse of the converts or lay-brothers—with their Dormitoryover it. It would probably be connected with the westernpart of the Nave of the Church by a doorway, through whichthey would go to such of the services as they had to seventy years ago, near the situation of the present farm-house, there was a monastic building of considerable size andheight, wliich was then used as a stable. This may have beenthe house of the lay-brothers. About 30 yards east of the Chapter-house there stoodin the first ([uarter of the present cotitury a detached Man-sion of two stories in which the Lords Balmerino had charters, of a date subsequent to the Itefoniiation, men-tion as existing in the same place a building then called the. ai;iii:n. souiii-kast ; cw ciiaiI i;
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