reredorter การใช้
- The upper floor of this building was the reredorter or latrine.
- The east range incorporated the chapter house and also contained the sacristy, the canons'dormitory and the reredorter.
- At the southern end of the dorter, a doorway led to the reredorter, the communal washing and latrine block.
- The entrance to the great School, formerly the monks'reredorter, is a stone arch designed by Lord Burlington.
- An unusual attraction is the nearby thatched two-storey monks'reredorter or lavatory, which is considered unique in Britain.
- The lay brothers reredorter was most often to the west of the cloister, attached to their dormitory in a similar way to that of the monks.
- A new and larger reredorter was built at the end of the east range, and it is believed that work might have started on a new chapter house.
- The spring to the south was channelled to supply the priory with water for the kitchens and to flush the reredorter or latrine, and also to fill the ponds.
- The chancel walls, the southern part of the transept, the east range of the cloister together with the chapter house and sacristy and the lower part of the reredorter all survive mainly intact.
- To the west of the reredorter block was the buttery, a room where the monks'wine ( some of it direct from the king's cellars at Southampton ) and beer were stored.
- The east range, which was completed first ( probably by around 1250 ), held the chapter house, sacristy, the monks'dormitory, day room, and a long reredorter ( latrine ).
- The "'reredorter "'or "'necessarium "'( the latter being the original term ) was a communal latrine found in mediaeval monasteries in Western Europe and later also in some New World monasteries.
- Waste fell down chutes or between walls ( as far as ) and was usually carried away by a stream, river or conduit; availability of a suitable stream was often a factor in siting a monastery, and some monasteries have unusual ground plans to enable facilities such as the reredorter to have access to the water.
- His reconstruction suggests that the builders probably created Effingham Street along the site of the dormitory, chapter house and transepts, Effingham Crescent along what might have been the reredorter, and Saxon Street and the houses and gardens of the north side of St . Martin's Hill along what was once the nave of the church.
- The East range contained the abbey's chapterhouse; a small room which is presumed to be either a library or a sacristry; a second larger undercroft, again used for storage; a corridor, known as the Slype, leading to the graveyard; and on the first floor were the canon's dormitory and reredorter ( communal latrine ).