Identifier: churchconventual00walc (find matches)
Title: Church and conventual arrangement. With copious references, a complete glossary, and an index. And illustrated by a series of ground-plans and plates of the arrangements of churches in different countries and at successive periods, and of the conventual plans adopted by the various orders
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Walcott, Mackenzie E. C. (Mackenzie Edward Charles), 1821-1880
Subjects: Church architecture Convents
Publisher: London, Atchley and Co
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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Friars—Austin.— West Front. 79 Marie des Vaux Verts, near Brussels, exhibits an oblongchurch without towers. On the north side of the cloister wasthe library, on the west the dormitory, on the south therefectory, on the east the day dormitory for the meridian.On the north and south of the eastern cloister were the guest-houses. The infirmary was detached on the south-west of thegreat cloister. The churches at Norwich, Stamford, and Thet-ford were oblong; in the latter instance the tower stood be-tween it and the cloister. At Bristol the church had a naveand choir of equal length, an oblong chapter-house and a longnarrow cloister.1 WEST FRONT. The ordinary west front in a fine building presented a gablebetween two towers. In the church of a nunnery, as atRomsey, there was no west door. The west fronts presentedhigh-pitched roofs and gables, when stone walls superseded theold flat wooden roofs, and were especially useful in the snowyand rainy north. The mystic triangle of the Trinit

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