List of Convent Rooms
1. Abbess’s House
2. Almonry (where alms of food or money for the poor are distributed)
3. Barn*
4. Bake House*
5. Bell Tower
6. Brew House*
7. Buttery (where ale & wine is stored)
8. Cellarium (underground storeroom)
9. Cemetery*
10. Chapter-house (where the running of the convent is discussed by the Head Sisters)
11. Choir
12. Cloister (covered passage surrounding central, enclosed garden)
13. Criado Dormer (servant’s dormitory)
14. Dining Room
15. Dormer (dormitory) for Oblates, Postulants, & Novices
16. Fish Pond*
17. Garden
18. Head Sisters’ Dormer
19. Herbery
20. Infirmary
21. Kitchen
22. Laundry*
23. Lay Sisters’ Dormer
24. Library
25. Locutory (room for conversations with people from outside the convent)
26. Mill*
27. Miserichord (where sisters are punished for grave transgressions)
28. Narthex (covered front entrance of the church)
29. Nave (main area of the church)
30. Piggery*
31. Prisã0 (prison cells)
32. Reredorter (toilets)
33. Sacristy (storage for convent valuables)
34. Scriptorium (where manuscripts are illuminated)
35. Smithy*
36. Stables*
37. Warming Room (only other room in the convent allowed a fireplace, besides the
Kitchen)
38. Workshops*
*Rooms not adjoined to the Main Convent
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