LEADING out of the walk opposite the church was invariably the large dining hall called the refectorium. It is shewn in the Norman drawing of Canterbury, and indeed in the much earlier plan of St Gall. The Latin word is generally anglicized to refectory, but the old English name is frater, frater house, or fratry. In most abbeys the axis was parallel with that of the church, and windows were placed high up over the cloister roof. In the Cistercian Order the normal position was north and south, and most of the windows could come lower down, but in a few cases, such as Sibton and Merevale, the frater ran east and west: at Cleeve it was rebuilt in this form in the fifteenth century, the original frater having been north and south. In the houses of regular canons the hall was usually on an upper floor, with cellars below, and the same plan obtains in some Benedictine abbeys. At Fountains the frater was 110 ft. long by 46 ft. wide: at Bury it was no less than 171 ft. long. The arrangement of the hall was similar to that at colleges in Oxford and Cambridge. At the high table, on a dais, would sit the chief officers and perhaps monastic guests. At the lower tables, at right angles to the dais, would be the ordinary brethren, the youngest near the door.