92 DESCRIPTION OF THE ANCIENT PLAN to the cliiircli is as follows : the cloistei-, with dorniitoiy, bath, refectory, kitchen, and cellar with larder, are attached to its south side ; the novices' school and infirmary, Avith their offices, and with the ph3'sician's house and garden, lie to the east ; the abbot's house, the school, and the hospitium for superior guests, are placed on the north, apart from the monastery, the latter two lying nearest the entrance, so that the abbot separates the strangers from the monastic buildings at this angle, and he has himself a private entrance to the church ; the paupers' hospitium is opposite to the other, and the farm buildings and workshops lie in the outward circum- ference westward and southward ; the garden and the ceme- tery eastward. The Church. The church is cruciform in plan : its nave has nine piers on each side, which are said in the inscription to be twelve feet asunder The width of the central alley is forty feef", and of each side aisle twenty feet^ The transepts project about fifteen feet beyond the side aisle walls, to judge by their propor- tional size. They have no aisles. A chancel extends eastward about forty feet, and is terminated by an apse : there is also an apse at the west end of the nave. The principal entrances of the church are at the west end. This end has an atrium or court, of a semicircular plan, the diameter of which is equal to the entire width of the nave and aisles, and it is concentric to the western apse. A covered porticus or cloister lines its wall, and is supported by eight square piers, which arc ten feet asunder. Its middle part, between the cloister and the apse, is open to the sky, and termed a field of Paradise'^. A long alley leads from without to the door of the cloistered atrium, which is protected by a vestibule ; and the western doors of the church terminate the cloister to right and left. Close to these church doors, however, other doors lead from the cloister, one on each side, into vestibules sinnlar to the ' Bissenos met'ire pedes inlerque coliim- court : — Tias ; Hie mum (echini imposilinn palet,.atqiie Ordbie quas islo const Ituisse decet. columtus ^ L/tt/liido interiuris tempU pedum xl. Has interque pedes denos moderare en- ' Lddtudo utr'iusque porticus pedum xx. lumnas. "' The following verses are inscribed Hir ptiradisiannn sine terto sternito cam- rcspcctively in the semicircular cloister, pum between its coluTuns, in the open space in Hie sine dowatiJius parailisl plana pa- front oi"it, and in the semicircular eastern ranlur.
