ABBOT'S HOUSE
As at Cluny, so in the autonomous English Benedictine
houses: a change in customs was responsible for the disappearance
of a separate house for the abbot. But this issue
remained controversial, as it had been in the days of St.
Benedict of Aniane.[118]
Like the Customs of Udalric, the
Constitutions of Lanfranc[119]
reveal that the abbot slept in the
dormitory: "In the early morning no one shall dare to make
a sound as long as (the abbot) is in bed asleep."[120]
Yet by
1150 all but a very few abbots in England had removed to
quarters of their own.
[121]
Brakspear, in his survey of English
abbots' houses, discloses that by the thirteenth century the
abbot, as on the Plan of St. Gall, is once more provided
with a separate building, usually connected to the outer
parlor with guest houses next to it. This is the case at
Battle and Castle Acre (fig. 518).
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