Vaulted ceiling #TinternWarmingHouse #TinternAbbey
Some (heavily worn) bosses survive and left a complete corbel supporting the vaulting ribs #HeidiAtTintern
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Warming room range from north #TinternAbbey
This opening once housed a large fireplace. Monks could come and warm up here. Winter in this place would have tested any monk's faith, but perhaps that was the point #HeidiAtTintern #TinternWarmingRoom
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Warming room range from north #TinternAbbey
Frater to right. This range, with it's ghost roofs, has C13 single lights to the second stage and C15 3-light windows above #HeidiAtTintern #TinternWarmingRoom
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North of cloister #TinternAbbey
The cloister and domestic ranges of the Abbey are built to the north of the Abbey Church. The cold side. And so the room through the centre arch would have been important to the monks. The warming room #HeidiAtTintern #TinternWarmingRoom
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South wall of frater to right of main door (as facing) #TinternAbbey #TinternFrater
Indistinguishable from a piscina, even down to the credence shelf (missing on right), trefoil headed lavabo for the monks to wash their hands before meals? #MedievalLavabo #HeidiAtTintern
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Finally an actual door for #AdoorableThursday. One of a pair to the west of #TinternAbbey
Because Mouse make you wait so long she chuck in a #WicketGate for good measure #HeidiAtTintern #StMaryTintern #Thursgate
(Note #NickedNook)
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West elevation (interior) of #TinternAbbey #DoorwayThursday
The setting of the two doors from the interior doesn't look quite so authentic. They rather have the look of a film set. Curious #HeidiAtTintern #StMaryTintern
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East elevation of frater #TinternAbbey #DoorwayThursday
Somewhat squished in, rather suggesting the modifications made to this range of buildings over a hundred years or so #HeidiAtTintern #TinternFrater (6/6)
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West elevation of frater #TinternAbbey #DoorwayThursday
Rather well carved and built pointed doorway. It looks important but Mouse couldn't work out were it originally led if the frater was indeed a single storey #HeidiAtTintern #TinternFrater (5/6)
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From the frater interior. Decorated period windows are to the left #TinternAbbey
The vestiges of some very high quality vaulting, suggesting very fine columns and ribs. This seems to have ended as one storey, but it's hard to piece together #HeidiAtTintern #TinternFrater (4/6)
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From the frater interior #TinternAbbey
The size and decoration of these windows and the height of the room reinforces the high status nature of this space. If this really is the frater, monks here dined in style #HeidiAtTintern #TinternFrater (3/6)
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Reverse view across monk's frater to cloister and with nave of the Abbey Church in the background #TinternAbbey #DoorwayThursday
This is a very grand door and it starts to shape a picture of a rather grand room for a dining area #HeidiAtTintern #TinternFrater (2/6)
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From cloister to frater (refectory or monks dining space) #TinternAbbey #TinternCloister #DoorwayThursday
It's hard to tell the geometry of this arch although it looks pseudo-4-centred. This building is too early for that so let's just settle for pointed #HeidiAtTintern #TinternFrater (1/6)
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Passage from novices' lodging to adjacent range #TinternAbbey
Segmental arch with relieving arch. The bases of lost columns can be seen at the foot of the interior jambs #DoorwayThursday #HeidiAtTintern
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From passageway to novices' lodging #TinternAbbey
Wide chamfered segmental pointed arch.
On #AdoorableThursday when we all celebrate doors, Mouse often has, albeit beautiful, doorless doorways. So here's a companion piece #DoorwayThursday. Feel free to hop aboard #HeidiAtTintern
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To some just a hole in an old wall. To others a piecing, to others still an aperture. To Mouse a thing of beauty. Zoom in and look at the way the head under the relieving arch has been carved. No reason for it. Just decorative. And beautiful #HeidiAtTintern #WindowsOnWednesday
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North aisle #StMaryTintern #WindowsOnWednesday
Fine 2-light Decorated window with pointed trefoil lights and quatrefoil tracery. Typical C13 but the guide says C14 #HeidiAtTintern
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Decorated period windows of the frater (Monk's dining area) across the novices' lodgings. Quite delicately carved #TinternAbbey #TinternFrater #WindowsOnWednesday #HeidiAtTintern
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East elevation of #TinternLodgings #TinternAbbey
Typical C13 corbel either remarkably well preserved or shaft replaced. As with the Chapter House a tiny clue to a (probably) rather impressive vaulted ceiling. Archaeologists knew these were lodgings as someone had labelled them #HeidiAtTintern
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You can see the keys for a vertical and several horizontal bars on these ancient windows. It's anybody's guess whether or when there was glazed. Mouse pretty certain that they were unglazed when first inserted #TinternAbbey #TinternLodgings #HeidiAtTintern #WindowsOnWednesday
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Most of the novices of #TinternAbbey would be praying for glass. It's amazing how much weather can get through a splay window #TinternLodgings #WindowsOnWednesday #HeidiAtTintern
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East elevation, novices' lodgings #TinternAbbey #TinternLodgings #WindowsOnWednesday
Perfect single pointed light with deep splay and circular rere. It's even a proper lancet. An example of the nexus where #ArtAndArchitectureMeet #HeidiAtTintern
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North transept over Chapter House from novices' lodgings #TinternAbbey #TinternLodgings
The design of the Abbey portrays the division between monks, novices and laybrothers. Monks had a dorter (dormitory) above these lodgings, laybrothers in a range to the west #HeidiAtTintern
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South-east corner of Chapter House #TinternAbbey
With blocked arch. Once connecting the chapter house to vestry and lectorium, perhaps? #HeidiAtTintern #TinternChapterHouse (4/4)
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North-east corner of Chapter House #TinternAbbey
The shape of the corbel at the top of these once clustered columns (along with the stumps of columns down the centre) gives the merest hint of a vaulted roof that once spanned this space #HeidiAtTintern #TinternChapterHouse (3/4)
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North-east corner of Chapter House #TinternAbbey
Low stone seating for the monks. Here they would listen to a reading of The Rules, the day's news and a 'chapter' of scripture #HeidiAtTintern #TinternChapterHouse (2/4)
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Entrance to Chapter House from cloister #TinternAbbey
The remains of slender clustered columns suggest that the Chapter House was in its time a well decorated building. It opened onto the covered arcade of the cloister #HeidiAtTintern #TinternCloister #TinternChapterHouse (1/4)
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The Chapter House (with vestry and lectorium right) from the cloister #TinternAbbey
Chapter House. Meeting place. As you might find a meeting house facing onto a Roman forum. The parallel is strengthened by the stumps of columns resembling the ruins of classical Greece and Rome #HeidiAtTintern
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To the north of the cloister #TinternAbbey
The cloister nestles between nave and north transept and is surrounded by ranges of domestic buildings. A cloister feels to Mouse like the equivalent of a Roman forum with its arcades mirroring a forum's colonnades #HeidiAtTintern
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