also were formed by recesses in similar positions in the south wall at Durham[10]. § 57. The ground-floor of the western range of buildings, as at Canterbury, Chester and Peterborough, was usually the cellarer's building (_cellarium_), containing the great cellar and buttery of the monastery, and frequently divided from the church by a vaulted passage, which was the main entrance to the cloister from the _curia_ and was the outer parlour, where necessary business could be done with lay-folk. But the variable position of the _curia_ with regard to the cloister made the use of this range liable to variation; and sometimes, as we have seen, the great cellar was a vault beneath the frater. In two convents of women, the Benedictine house of St Radegund at Cambridge and the Augustinian house at Lacock, the ground-floor was divided into separate rooms. The outer parlour at Lacock was a passage near the centre of the range: the rooms next the church may have been used by the chaplains of the convent, while a large room north of the passage may have been the guest-hall where inferior visitors or pilgrims were entertained by the cellaress. The upper floor probably contained the abbess' lodging or _camera_, with her guest-hall, in which visitors of the better class were accommodated, above the cellaress' hall. It was at any rate a very general custom, save in Cistercian monasteries, for the upper floor to form part of the abbot's or prior's separate lodging, and to contain his guest-hall. Originally the head of the house slept in the dorter with his brethren; but before the end of the twelfth century he began to occupy separate rooms, which in the larger monasteries developed into a house of some size. At Peterborough the abbot's lodging, now the bishop's palace, consisted of a separate block of buildings standing to the west of the _cellarium_, and entered from the outer court through its own gatehouse. It was joined to the _cellarium_ by a wing, on the upper floor of which was the abbot's solar or great chamber; and this communicated with the guest-hall on the first floor of the _cellarium_, between which and the church, above the outer parlour, was the abbot's chapel. The older abbot's lodging at Gloucester, afterwards appropriated to the prior, and now used as the deanery, was also separated by a small court from the cloister, and a wing next the church contained the abbot's chapel above the outer parlour; but here there was no western cloister range, and consequently the abbot's guest-hall was not within the claustral buildings. The archbishop's palace at Canterbury occupied practically the whole space west of the _cellarium_, with entrances to the cloister at both ends: the _curia_ was on the north of the cloister, and the outer parlour was a passage between the west end of the frater and the cellarer's building.