"* and

chambres for the ladyes and others to work yn,' at Esholt "at the southe ende of the dorter iij little parlers, called the laydes parlers, whereof two hathe eyther of theym a stone chymney and a glasse wyndowe and the thirde parler a glass wyndow."‡

THE VESTRY.

On the east side of the cloister and adjoining the church is an apartment 22 feet from north to south by 16 feet wide. It was entered from the cloister by a segmental headed doorway that has lost its outer member. Inside the doorway was a square lobby, under the dorter stairs, with a second segmental archway into the apartment itself.

This was lighted by two lancet windows, in the east wall, of which one remains perfect. It has internally a pointed segmental rerearch of two hollow chamfers, and externally the jambs and arch have a double hollow moulding, with a wide relieving arch over the latter.

The barrow hole from the church shows in the south

wall; but there are no indications of any original fittings.

The use of the chamber is uncertain, but it possibly was the vestry.§ It corresponds with a similar apartment at Lacock, which has two chapels in its eastern part projecting beyond the line of the range, and a cupboard in its south wall.

In the cloister northward of the vestry door is another doorway, having a single chamfered member with pointed segmental head, that led to the dorter stairs. The stairs, which were apparently of wood, have disappeared, but they were arranged to run up southward between the main wall of the range, and a thin wall forming the west side of the vestry.

Ibid. ix. 324.

Yorks Archaeological Journal, ix. 331 The second has been entirely obliterated by post-suppression insertions, which consist of a doorway, with a four-centred brick head, next the church; a fireplace, in the centre of the wall, that has been destroyed together with its projecting breast; and a twolight window, having four-centred arched heads, to the north.

§ At the small Benedictine nunneries of Little Marlow in Buckinghamshire and Kington in Wiltshire the chapter-house adjoined the church without any building in this position, and this seems to have been the more usual arrangement.

THE CHAPTER-HOUSE.

Adjoining the vestry northward was the chapterhouse, an apartment 33 feet long from east to west and 20 feet wide.

It was entered from the cloister by a wide pointed archway of two members inside and out. Externally the inner member is of two chamfers, hollowed in the

arch and plain in the jambs; the outer member is moulded and rested on jamb shafts having moulded caps and bases, and has a moulded label with mask terminals. Internally both members are similar to the external inner member, and the arch has a moulded label which returns at the springing.

The east end of the apartment projects 11 feet from