Parlour and Stairs
As silence was generally observed within the monastery, this rib-vaulted room was provided to allow essential conversations to take place without disturbing others. The shallow-arched doorway, with the window above, were built within the original round-arched opening in the late fifteenth century.
At first the next doorway led to the monks' day-stair to their dormitory, the remains of the vault which carried the flight of stone steps still being visible along the inside walls. In the thirteenth century, however, these stairs were replaced by a new flight entered through the tall pointed arch at the south-east corner of the Cloister. Between these staircases, the barrel-vaulted Infirmary passage gave access from the Cloister both to the Infirmary and to the Abbot's Lodgings.