reredorter
necessarium

The upper floor of this building was the reredorter or latrine.

Elements of the warming house, novices' day room, south drain and reredorter undercroft were revealed.

Above was the "dorter" or "sleeping quarters" with the reredorter (communal toilet) at the end of the building.

At the southern end of the dorter, a doorway led to the reredorter, the communal washing and latrine block.

The toilets in monasteries however were not in the lavatorium but in the reredorter.

The east range incorporated the chapter house and also contained the sacristy, the canons' dormitory and the reredorter.

The entrance to the great School, formerly the monks' reredorter, is a stone arch designed by Lord Burlington.

Reredorter, medieval monastic latrine.

An unusual attraction is the nearby thatched two-storey monks' reredorter or lavatory, which is considered unique in Britain.

During the St. Leonard's excavation, the reredorter (toilet) drain was uncovered which entered into a fissure for drainage to the river.

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.

Most of the buildings were demolished and the stone used in local buildings, although the Abbot's House and reredorter survive.

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.

A cross fragment was found among Period V demolition material in Room 5 (Reredorter Undercroft).

The sacristy/library, the south transept chapels, the treasury, the reredorter undercroft and the lower floor of the abbot's house still have their vaults intact.

Water from the leat was also channelled to Monk Bretton Priory, where it flushed the kitchens and the reredorter.

Excavations in 1933 revealed that the site comprised a church, chapter house, dormitory, dormitory undercroft, reredorter, refectory, cellarage and store rooms.

Covering the Reredorter Undercroft were four bays of quadripartite rib vaulting, springing from the corners of the room and from the wall faces.

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.

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 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.

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.

These comprised the cloister and chapter house directly south of the church and the dorter, reredorter, frater and infirmary to south and east, of which sections survive above ground, as well as the Prior's lodging and entrance gates to the west of which fragments also survive.

Little survived of this building to suggest how, if at all, it was linked to the Reredorter, but the building can be seen as part of the stabilisation works on the south wall of the Reredorter during the later 14th century (Period III).

There is the lay brothers' reredorter (latrine), built over the river, and the stone grid of what was effectively a waste-disposal unit beside the infirmary, also above the water - you see why that little group of renegade monks picked this site in the first place, with its permanent water supply that could also be used as a sewage system.

If you will excuse me for a moment, I must find the necessarium.

The mediaeval term was necessarium (place of necessity).

Projecting from the dormitory was the "necessarium" or toilet block, with a drain running beneath the toilets.

Our medieval forefathers answered their calls of nature from the necessarium, while their Tudor offspring favoured the privy.

Unum Necessarium (1655), on the doctrine of repentance, perceived Pelagianism gave great offence to Presbyterians.

She left the place only to find water, more food, extra blankets against the increasing cold, and to use the clerks necessarium at the end of the loading dock.

But I feared the thing was charged with dangerous magic, so I made him throw it down a necessarium at Castle Vanguard.

In the same year appeared his next book,Unum Necessarium or The Doctrine and Practice of Repentance.

Organum dialectum et rethoricum cunctis discipulis utilissimum et necessarium (Lyon, 1579)

A second distinction corresponding to this one:ens necessarium and ens contingens, i.e., necessary being and contingent being.

Strange to say, I often think that prayer — the unum necessarium — is the one aspect of vocations work which we tend to forget or to undervalue!

At its eastern end, the Holy Brook formed the southern boundary of Reading Abbey, driving the Abbey's mill and supplying water to its necessarium.

Invisible, she passed through the locked and barred door that gave onto the quay and made her way very slowly to the necessarium overhanging the water at the end of the winesellers pier.

He hid the wallet with the sigil under his palliasse, which was closest to the outer door so he could sneak out easily at night, then went down the corridor to the necessarium.

But Rukh was squatting on the dais by his bedside when he again awakened, again with broth and wine and his wiry strength to aid him in reaching the necessarium.

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.

The latch that opened the concealed passageway was in the curtain wall next to the necessarium, beneath a stone shelf holding a lavabo, a crock of scented softsoap, and fine linen handtowels.

In his Elementa juris naturalis, Leibniz notes the logical relations between the licitum, illicitum, debitum, and indifferens are equivalent to those between the possible, impossible, necessarium, and contingens respectively.

He had a mainly formal understanding of literary beauty, as is revealed in his rhetorical treatises De arte dicendi (1556) and Organum dialecticum et rethoricum cunctis discipulis utilissimum et necessarium (Lyon, 1579).

The monks live a fraternal life during times of recreation (wherein they seek to practice the virtue of eutrapelia) yet their main concern is to seek to unite themselves to the "one thing necessary" (unum necessarium), that is, God in the context of silence and solitude.

But it would be seemly to agree that he need not confine himself to the church, but have the freedom of the whole enclosure here, so that he may make use of the lavatorium and necessarium, take some exercise in the open air, and keep himself decent among us.

Some epithets are known by the Latin term epitheton necessarium because they are required to distinguish the bearers, e.g. as an alternative to numbers after a prince's name-such as Richard the Lionheart (Richard I of England), or Charles the Fat alongside Charles the Bald.