The Refectory at Easby Abbey: Form and Iconography
Peter Fergusson
This paper argues for a distinction between monastic and canonic architecture in twelfth-and thirteenth-century England one building type, the refectory. Analysis of refectory at Easby Abbey Yorkshire, earliest most complete surviving canons' north England, provides comparison with refectories, particularly those Cistercians. It is suggested that refectories were conscious reflections Cenaculum Jerusalem, impulse such representation was characteristic canons, adoption distinctive two-story form followed from involvement Third Crusade.
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