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The Priory
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The ground floor was divided into small rooms by wooden partitions, so that the monk had a living-room with a fireplace, a bedroom and an oratory (a private prayer room). He also had a private cloister, a small covered passageway in which he could walk up and down for exercise and which also gave access to the garden. In the corner of the garden was the privy, flushed by spring-water channelled from the nearby hillside. The upper floor was the monk's workroom. Every monk had to practice a trade, (writing, weaving etc.) the produce of which was shared by the other monks or went towards the upkeep of the monastery. There was special hatch in the cell wall near the door that food could be passed through without the Monk needing to see or speak to the server. Each also had it's own small private walled garden. 
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