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30 METRES Fig Abbey abbot aisleless aisles Alban's altar apse apsidal arcade Augustinian barn bays Benedictine black monks Byland C+ C+ C+ Canterbury Carthusian Castle Acre Castle Acre Priory cathedral-monastery cellar cellarer's range chambers chapter house Church development Cistercian claustral buildings cloister cloister alleys Cluniac convent day stairs doorway dorter dorter range Durham early Cistercian Easby east end eastern arm England and Wales examples farmery Finchale foundation Fountains Abbey Fountains Fig fourteenth century frater range friars gatehouse Gilbertine Grandmontine guests hall Jervaulx Kirkstall kitchen Lady Chapel lay brethren lodging London Charterhouse mediaeval monasteries monastic monasticism nave Norman Norwich nuns obedientiaries Orders outer court parlour passage placed PLATE precinct Premonstratensian presbytery Priory quire religious house reredorter Rievaulx Rievaulx Abbey sacristy screens served side slype Thetford Fig Thornton Thornton Abbey Tintern tower transept twelfth century undercroft wall warming house west end western whilst Whitby