Kitchen And Refectory In Jaulian

In the earlier days, therefore, it may be inferred that, in accordance

with established rule, the monks depended for their food entirely
upon charity, eating it forthwith from their begging bowls, and that
it was only in the early medieval period that they developed the idea
of possessing store-rooms and kitchens of their own, and of embarking
generally on a more luxurious mode of life.kitchen and refectory,
were too spacious to be spanned by timebers from side to side, pillars
had to be erected in each of them to support the roof beams.in the
refectory the existing bases show that there were four such pillars
disposed in a square in the middle of the hall, in the kitchen a
raised stone pilnth, near its middle and running from east to west,
suggests that there were two pillars here carrying the rool numbers.
This room possesses a drain of rough limestone,besides several
millstones and grinding slabs to small storeroom belonging
to the kitchen is round bench of stone,about 1 ft. 5 in. high,
running round three sides of the chamber.In the floor of the latrine
nare the eastern entrance, is a square depression about 6 in. deep,
paved with limestone flags.