V.7.6
KITCHEN STOVES AND KETTLES
Square cooking ranges, resting on arches, with firing chambers
beneath and openings for pots on the surface are
designated for the kitchens on the Plan. Only one of them,
the stove in the Monks' Kitchen, has an explanatory title
(fornax super arcus) (fig. 389A). It is 7½ feet square. The
other kitchen stoves—House for Distinguished Guests
(fig. 389B), Hospice for Pilgrims and Paupers (fig. 389C),
Novitiate and Infirmary (figs. 389D,E)—are about 5 feet
square. We may assume, I think, that their design was the
same as that of the stove in the Monks' Kitchen discussed
earlier.[277]
This type of stove was also used in the brew-house
(fig. 389F,G).
It is possible that a cooking area for the serfs and laymen
is to be found in the living room of the House for Horses
and Oxen and Their Keepers, and that the H-shaped
symbol was intended to mean an open fireplace with kettles
suspended on cranes.
The circles around the larger stoves (fig. 389A,F,G) were
undoubtedly meant to indicate tubs or kettles, and these
may have belonged to any of the varieties shown in figures
210, 390, and 400.
