. Archaeologia cantiana. J. THE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OE THECATHEDRAL CHURCH AND MONAS-TERY OE ST. ANDREW AT ROCHESTER.* BY W. H. ST. JOHN HOPE, 2.—THE MONASTERY. The buildings of the Benedictine Priory attached tothe cathedral church of Rochester are remarkable for theirunusual position on the south side of the presbytery, anarrangement almost unique in this country, where themonastic cloister and its surrounding buildings are generallyplaced north or south of the nave. So singular a departurefrom the normal plan involved, in some measure, a dispositionof the claustral buildings differen
. Archaeologia cantiana. J. THE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OE THECATHEDRAL CHURCH AND MONAS-TERY OE ST. ANDREW AT ROCHESTER.* BY W. H. ST. JOHN HOPE, 2.—THE MONASTERY. The buildings of the Benedictine Priory attached tothe cathedral church of Rochester are remarkable for theirunusual position on the south side of the presbytery, anarrangement almost unique in this country, where themonastic cloister and its surrounding buildings are generallyplaced north or south of the nave. So singular a departurefrom the normal plan involved, in some measure, a dispositionof the claustral buildings different from that usually met with,and this in turn exercised a noteworthy influence on thereconstruction of the church, so far as the monastic half ofit is concerned. Why so unusual a site was chosen is not quite clear,especially as there are reasons for supposing that the firstcloister occupied the normal position south of the nave. Thequestion has been obscured, too, through the alterations thathave been made in the precinct
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