Also known as the frater, the refectory was built as one room towards the end of the twelfth century, and provided a space for the monks to eat in silence while one of their number read to them from a pulpit.
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Also known as the frater, the refectory was built as one room towards the end of the twelfth century, and provided a space for the monks to eat in silence while one of their number read to them from a pulpit.
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| It was divided into two in the fifteenth century to provided a space for meat eating (known as the Misericord) on the ground floor, while the normal vegetarian diet was continued on the first floor. | |
| Its is still possible to see some remains of window tracery in the first floor vegetarian refectory.
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