s entrance was
always kept carefully guarded to prevent intrusion by strangers or
unauthorized persons." (Hope.)

The passage served as the outer parlour, in which the monks held
conversation with strangers and visitors.

The #South Alley.#--This alley has ten windows each of six lights, but
below the transoms the lights are replaced by twenty carrels or
recesses, two to each window. This was the place to which the monks
resorted daily for study (after they had dined) until evensong. The
first window--_i.e._ the westernmost window nearest to the slype--is a
memorial to J. Francillon, Esq., a judge of the county court, who died
in 1866. The glass is by Hardman.

The first two carrel windows were filled with glass of a simple and
inoffensive nature, by T. Fulljames, Esq., and the rest were filled by
T. Holt, Esq., to the memory of members of his family, their initials
being inserted in the lower corners.

The last window in this south alley is a memorial to R. B. Cooper, Esq.,
as the brass tablet sets forth. The glass, which is by Hardman,
represents the conversion and the execution of St. Paul.

Some of the windows in the cloister are glazed with a peculiarly
charming white glass, which admits plenty of light, but is not
transparent. The effect is most restful to the eyes after examining some
of the bizarre creations in the other windows.

When the cloister windows are entirely filled with glass they will
contain a history of the Life of our Lord.

Britton, in 1828, bemoaned the conversion of the garth into a kitchen
garden, and showed how the accumulation of vegetable refuse was injuring
the stone-work. There are still residents in Gloucester who can remember
Dean Law digging up his own potatoes in the garth. This is now the
private garden of the Dean, and is very simply, and therefore
charmingly, laid out. It contains the old well of the Abbey.

[Illustration: THE CLOISTER, SHOWING THE CARRELS OF THE MONKS.
_Photochrom Co. Ltd., Photo._]

The present #Deanery# was originally the Abbot's lodging, in which royal
persons, high ecclesiastics, and nobles were entertained. When, however,
in the fourteenth century, a new Abbot's lodging was built on the site
where the episcopal palace now stands, the Abbot's old lodging was
assigned to the Prior. The Deanery (which, however, is not shown to
visitors), as it now stands, "consists of two main blocks, built on two
sides of a court--the one to the south,