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row of short pillars, the bases of which might have been revealed if opportunity had occurred to examine the interior of the building. At the south end of the west wall were the chamfered jambs of a wide doorway, the lower hinge-pins remaining on each side, indicating that double doors filled the opening 5 ft. 10 in. in width. Just north was another opening, blocked at an undetermined date, and on either side were traces of thin parallel walls of a narrow building lying at right-angles to the range. Further excavation in a westward direction was prevented by the farm road skirting this side of the site. At the east end of the south wall there was another doorway, its outward splays indicating that it is unlikely to have been an external entrance and must have communicated with a building on the west side of the kitchen (Plate IVB). Towards the north end of the east wall the well-preserved lower part of a doorway from the cloister remained, the jambs hollow-chamfered with the bases and lower portions of both nook-shafts in position (Plate IVa). Normally, a doorway in this position led into a cross-passage serving as the outer parlour and a communication with the outer court. Occasionally, however, the outer parlour took the form of a large room projecting westwards, e.g., at Selby and Bridlington. At Leeds there was a wing at right-angles to the north end of the west range to fit this arrangement and its		south side may have been defined across the interior of the main building by a timber partition, as there was no stone foundation on this alignment. The wing cannot have extended much further than shown on the plan on account of the stream running south - north on the west side of the farm road. The use to which the upper floor of the west range was put varied in different monasteries. Often, it contained the lodgings of the president - in this case the prior - and also accommodation for guests In the vaulted undercroft the cellarer stored the provisions for the house which were in his charge. The Cloister Cuttings on the four sides of the enclosure determined the positions of the foundations of the cloister arcades. In these excavations several pieces of marble shafts were found and may be assumed to have come from the cloister arcades. From the slight character of the footings it. seems unlikely that the cloister was ever vaulted. THE POST-DISSOLUTION HOUSE In Harris's History of Kent there appears an engraving by Badslade of Leeds Abby, the house which occupied the site of the medieval Priory
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