In the third bay is a holy water stoop, and in the fifth a large aumbry or recess, entered by a door; in this used to be kept the bier and lights used at funerals.
In the south wall a large aumbry or cupboard, in the thickness of the walls, may be seen; in this possibly the canons kept the books that they had brought from the library for study.
This chapel has been so completely restored that it has a thoroughly neat and modern appearance, and has lost all its archæological value; round it runs a Norman arcade, and on the north side an aumbry may be seen.
These recesses are shown on the plan here reproduced; so also is the common aumbry in the wall of the south transept.
An aumbry was a recess in the wall well lined inside with wood so that the damp of the masonry should not spoil the books.
The manuscripts of Abbot Simon of St. Albans were preserved in "the painted aumbry in the church.
In this aisle is a large aumbry and recess, where the bier and lights used at funerals were stored.
Traces of the cloister roof can still be seen, also a large drain, and an aumbry and cupboard built into the thickness of the wall.
There is a square aumbry to the right of this monument, and in the next bay another, divided by a stone shelf and having modern doors with ornamental iron-work.
Opposite to the blocked window already mentioned, which has an aumbry east of it, there is a late square-headed window of two lights, whose arches do not reach quite up to the lintel, but are connected with it by short perpendiculars.
In each of these the old piscina and aumbry remain near where the altar had been placed.
The space in the north wall shows where the aumbry used to be.
The aumbry is on the north and the piscina on the south side of the position which the altar used to occupy.
In the next chapel, that of the #Four Virgins#, there is nothing to show where the aumbry or the piscina was.
The aumbry in the north wall was the receptacle in which S.
All books were at once replaced on the shelves of the aumbry in the cloister, and then the monks waited in their places till the second signal.
The same account describes the cupboards near to the refectory door in which the monks kept their towels-- "All the forepart of the aumbry was thorough carved work, to give air to the towels.
Whatever volumes they needed for reading he borrowed from the aumbry in the cloister; but he was warned always to take them back again before the cantor locked up the cupboard for the night.
He had personally to see that the public reader had his volume ready, and that it was replaced in the aumbry at night.
At the first signal for the Vesper hour the books were all replaced in the aumbry in the cloister, and the community then waited until the commencement of the tolling of the great bell, when they betook themselves to their places in choir.
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