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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Decorated period windows of the frater (Monk's dining area) across the novices' lodgings. Quite delicately carved #TinternAbbey #TinternFrater #WindowsOnWednesday #HeidiAtTintern