The Chapter House
This impressive room is entered through a pair of large doorways in the centre of the eastern wall. Here the community met with the abbot to commemorate the saints and their deceased brethren, to hear a chapter of the Rule of St. Benedict, to confess their faults and receive correction, and to transact their business.
The vestibule forming the western half of the chapter house has clustered columns, round arches and vaults of the twelfth century, while the Chapter House proper has a single span rib-vaulted roof and tall lancet windows. These were installed during the thirteenth century rebuilding of this section, when a number of disused stone coffins were incorporated into the walls.