corbels for the
penthouse roof still exist in the walls, as they also do on the south
wall of the church. Two doors into the cloister from the church, one
at either end of the south aisle, have been blocked up.

The other sides of the cloister, which have entirely disappeared,
probably comprised on the south side a refectory, and on the west side
perhaps the Prior's apartments and a dormitory or infirmary. The
humbler domestic buildings were probably to the east of the block
composed of the church; and a smaller cloister, or at any rate a
smaller quadrangle of buildings may have existed to the east of the
present block now inhabited as a farm.

These farm buildings, which measure 68 feet 9 inches by 26 feet, with
walls 30 inches in thickness, are probably late fourteenth or early
fifteenth century, but contain many later modifications. There is a
large upper room near the church with certainly a fifteenth century
panelled ceiling, added to the existing open roof. This roof has a
quatrefoil opening, through which it was possible to see what was
taking place in the hall below.

Below this room (used as a granary) is a cellar three steps below the
ground-floor level, with a Norman shaft, introduced from some other
part of the buildings, to strengthen the floor above.

The present parlour, when in use as a hall, seems to have had two
entrances on the south side, one of which, now blocked, serves as a
small pantry.

The north wall of these buildings contains an early fifteenth century
two-light window, upon which the other windows seem to have been
modelled. The south wall contains two windows, one of two lights, the
lower one four. The east side is the most interesting from the
presence of a reticulated window, similar to one at Clevedon Court,
Somerset. This one originally measured 7 feet 6 inches by 2 feet 9
inches, but has been carried up 3 feet higher.

Near to this window, on the east, a wing has been rebuilt on the site
of older buildings, with old materials re-used.

[Illustration: _Photo. Dr. Oscar Clark._
FOURTEENTH CENTURY WINDOW.]

FOOTNOTES:

[29] In 1339 the Priory had license given to it to hold two fairs
annually, each to last three days, outside the precincts. They were to
be held "_in inventione et in exaltatione Crucis_."

[30] The tomb of Sir Bryan de Stapleton and Cecilia Bardolph at Ingham
(1438) has a dog upon it. His name is "_Jakke_."

[31] The plan shows parts which now exist o