Easby Abbey © David Gill
Modern visitors to Easby Abbey enter via the staircase into the west end of the refectory.
Easy Abbey, east end of the refectory © David Gill
The thirteenth-century doorway to the dorter carries another warning sign.
Easby Abbey, stairs to dorter © David Gill
Easby Abbey © David Gill
Easby Abbey © David Gill
A further warning sign is located near the chapter house on the east side of the cloister.
Easby Abbey © David Gill
Easby Abbey, chapter house © David Gill
Finchale Priory, 1987 (reprinted 1989)
English Heritage (e.g. Dartmouth Castle, Longthorpe Tower) and Historic Scotland guidebooks (e.g. Birsay, Smailholm) carried the logo of Gateway Foodmarkets Ltd. Advertising on official guidebooks has a long history.
Aydon Castle, 1988 (reprinted 1990)
Warkworth Castle, 3rd ed. 1990
Finchale Priory © David Gill
The dorter at Finchale Priory in Co. Durham is located on the east side of the cloister above the chapter house. It connected to the south transept of the church via a night stair. Sir Charles Peers suggested that the large room at the south end of the range ‘which in other monasteries served as a dayroom, is here too ill-lighted for such purpose, and at any rate in the later days of the priory can have been merely a storeroom’.
Finchale Priory © David Gill
On the east side of the dorter was the reredorter.
Finchale Priory © David Gill
Finchale Priory, reredorter © David Gill
A number of the Ministry warning signs are still in evidence at Lindisfarne Priory. One is placed on the exterior wall of the west range facing the (modern) churchyard.
A second is mounted in on one of the ovens in the south range. Similar signs are found at other locations, e.g. Thornton Abbey, Abbey at Bury St Edmunds, Kirkham Priory, Pickering Castle, Hadleigh Castle.
Lindisfarne Priory
The brewhouse at Lindisfarne Priory is located in the south range adjacent to the bakehouse. This part of the priory was constructed in the 1360s. The north-west corner contains a kiln.
Lindisfarne Priory, brewhouse © David Gill
Warkworth Castle, wine cellar © David Gill
Warkworth Castle, wine cellar © David Gill
The keep of Warkworth Castle in Northumberland contains two wine cellars on the ground floor of the east side of the building. The most southerly connected to the Great Hall above by a flight of stairs.
Warkworth Castle, wine cellar © David Gill
Warkworth Castle, wine cellar © David Gill
Warkworth Castle, wine cellar © David Gill
South transept, Thornton Abbey © David Gill
The south transept is one of the best preserved parts of the church at Thornton Abbey, on the south side of the Humber. The Augustinian abbey was founded in 1139 from Kirkham Priory in Yorkshire. The church seems to have been rebuilt c. 1264.
The guidebook is by Sir Alfred Clapham and P.K. Baillie Reynolds. The remains are in the care of English Heritage.
Thornton Abbey © David Gill
