d indications of doors to this recess are
still there. There are traces, too, of screens or partitions in the
lavatory arches.

To the west of the lavatory is a "curious arrangement. It consists of a
large opening in the lower part of the window, occupying the space of
two lights, with a separate chase in the head carried up vertically on
the outside. It had a transom at half its height, now broken away, as is
also the sill." (Hope.)

It is possible, as suggested by Mr J. W. Clark, F.S.A., that this chase
was lined with wood, and was the means by which a bell rope passed out
to ring the bell which summoned the monks to meals.

The #North Alley.#--The windows in this alley as far as the Monks'
Lavatory have been filled recently, 1896-97, at the expense of Baron de
Ferrieres of Cheltenham.

There are twenty-seven lights in all, and they constitute the lower part
of five windows, a doorway taking the space of three lights. The
_eighth_ contains a mitre and a crozier, an initial E and the date 1022.
This window is an anachronism, as Edric was not a mitred abbot. Abbot
Froucester was the first to wear a mitre, in 1381.

Over the lavatory are four windows, also given by Baron de Ferrieres.
Like the windows in the lavatory, they contain subjects which are in
some way connected with water.

The small two-light windows (ten in number) in the Monks' Lavatory have
been glazed by Hardman, at the expense of Mr B. Bonnor.

A brass on the wall near the lavatory records that the masonry of the
north walk was restored by the Freemasons of the province of Gloucester
in 1896.

The #West Alley.#--The north window of three lights has been filled with
glass (by Ballantyne) to the memory of members of a Gloucester family
named Wilton.

The window was formerly an Early English doorway, which can still be
traced. "It retains the upper pair of the iron hooks on which the doors
were hung, and was the entrance into the great dining-hall of the monks,
called the refectorium, or, in English, the frater." (Hope.) The effect
of the window is beyond words.

[Illustration: OLD WATER TANK IN THE CLOISTER GARTH.]

The #Slype#, or covered passage, which is entered from the south-west
corner of the cloisters, is a vaulted passage of Norman work, and is
under part of the old Abbot's lodging--_i.e._ the present Deanery.

This passage, which is on a lower level than the cloister, was "the main
entrance into the cloister from the outer court. Thi