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abbot abbot's lodging aisleless apse Archaeol arrangement bays Benedictine churches Benedictine houses brethren Bristol buildings Buildwas built canons Canterbury Carthusian cellarer cellarer's cellarium chapter chapter-house Cistercian abbeys Cistercian churches Cistercian houses Cistercian order Citeaux cloister Cluniac coenobium common house compline convent conversi curia day-stair diocese divided dorter Durham east end east wall eastern processional doorway England English entrance fireplace founded Fountains frater friars Furness gatehouse Gilbertine Gloucester ground-floor guest-house Haughmond high altar Jervaulx Kirkstall kitchen Lacock later lay brothers misericord monasteries monastic monks nave night-stair Norwich nunneries nuns obedientiaries occupied outer court outer parlour parish churches passage Peterborough Premonstratensian presbytery processional path Prof pulpitum quire rectangular rere-dorter rood-screen roof screen-wall screens secular shew south aisle St Agatha's St Albans St Benedict sub-vault Sunday procession terce thirteenth century Tintern transept upper floor Valle Crucis vaulted walk warming-house Waverley west end west wall western range Westminster Worcester