Spatial Aspects of the Almonry Site and the Changing Priorities of Poor Relief at Westminster Abbey, c.1290-1540 (original) (raw)

Thornholme Priory (Lincolnshire), which traced the development o complex located immediately outside the west gate of the abb appearance in the fourteenth century through to the Dissolution.6 access from the priory to the almonry became blocked off entirely, autonomous almonry space that had evidently been reallocated s entirely from the ritual spaces of the monastic precinct. Yet the reconstructions of spatial arrangements of almonry sites conjectural, and based, necessarily, on minimal evidence. There has, speculation as to whether the identification of the 'almonry' at indeed correct, or whether the building was not on the site of the o suggested by a post-Dissolution survey.7 Also, the two almonri Cathedral Priory and St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury (both B located immediately without the main gates of each house, but lack archaeological or documentary evidence means that there can be only of spatial reconstruction of the sites.8 Even when there is much surv