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or THE MONASTERY OF ST. GALL. 105 cated a square with a small circle in the middle, l)y which, as in the cloisters, we may understand a quadrangular jjarterre, with a tree or a well, (or as Von Arx thinks, a small house.) On the north side the cloister is bounded by the chapel of the sick monks and that of the novices, which, as already ex- ])hiined, is under the same roof as the former, but completely separated from it. It is arranged as follows : a vestibule or ante-chapel at the west end is surrounded on three sides by a long bench against the walls, and entered by a door from the cloisters. The fourth or eastern side is a screen, with a door in the middle that admits to the choir, which has two benches or little forms, formi(he," in it, and lastly two steps ascend from the choir to the ])latform of the apse, in the centre of which stands an isolated altar. To the west of this convent of the novices, but separated from it by a road, stands the kitchen which is ajjpropriated to them, " coquiiia eunnidctu" in the middle of which the fire- hearth is introduced. Adjoinhig to it and under the same roof is a bath-room, " baljieaJori/'m," with four cauldrons, two benches, and a lire-place (?) in the middle of the room. The Outer School. The school-house is near the al)bot's dwelling, and is sur- rounded by a fence ". It is a building about seventy feet by fifty-three. This consists of a large apartment in. the middle, divided hy a screen or ])artition into two, about twenty-five feet square each. Round these are placed a series of fourteen small rooms, which open into the larger ones, two of them also having outer doors, and thus serving as vestibules. The rest of these little rooms are termed the dwellings of the scho- lars, " hie mansiuHCula scolasticorum. The inscription which runs across the central rooms mai'ks them as the conunon- room of the school and place of recreation, " domus communis schola idem vacationis" A small square in the centre of each is inscribed " Ic^tado!' I have already endeavoured to shew that this probably indicates the fire-place, with an open lan- tern over it. Each of the scholar's rooms has a square, but this is probably a table. No fumitiu-e of any other kind is indicated hi this house. ° The fences bear the inscription " 11<ec " I have substituted the above article tfiinquf sepia jiremiiiit disceiilis volii jit- as the school in place of one by Keller, vent(f." which describes the buildiii}; as having a