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The Plan of St. Gall

a study of the architecture & economy of & life in a paradigmatic Carolingian monastery
  
  
  
  
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INDIVIDUAL PRIVIES

Individual privies directly attached to the house or an
apartment, containing either one or more toilet seats, are
at the disposition of visiting noblemen (fig. 495A) and those
monastic functionaries who, because of their specific responsibilities,
must live in separate quarters outside the
claustrum, viz., the Porter (fig. 495B), the master of the
Outer School (fig. 495B), the master of the novices,
(fig. 495C), the chief physician (fig. 495D). They are
also installed for small groups of regular monks who are
not part of the monastic community, such as the visiting
monks (fig. 495E), and those being segregated for health
reasons, such as the sick novices (fig. 495C) or the acutely
ill patients in the House of the Physicians (fig. 495D).