The damage caused in 1918 was considerably greater. In some places the stone-work of the portals and towers was entirely destroyed, and in others indented more or less deeply. The fine and delicate carvings of the towers were also smashed. The north tower suffered most. A breach, jeopardizing its stability, was made almost the whole way up, and the upper part of the spire fell to the ground, like the other spire had done four years before. The interior vaulting which connected the two towers, partially fell in. At the back of the façade (_photo above_) which was also struck in several places, there are still traces of the first bay of the old nave of the abbey-church, pulled down under the Empire. [Illustration: WESTERN GALLERY OF THE CLOISTER. _Seen from Doorway. Nov. 1918._] The Great Cloister of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes. Under the south portal stands a 13th century doorway, with vaulting and tympanums decorated with finely carved foliage, which led from the abbey-church to the great cloister. Of the great 14th century cloister, only the south and west galleries remain. Each has seven bays with pointed arches resting, on one side, on brackets ornamented with foliage or human figures, and on the other, on piers surrounded by small columns (_photos above and below_). The large arches in tierce-point, ornamented with fine mouldings and separated by highly-wrought buttresses, formed an inner arcade composed of two bays surmounted by a rose-window. Traces of it are left in three bays of the south gallery (_photo below_). The arches formerly contained windows. [Illustration: SOUTHERN GALLERY OF THE CLOISTER, NOV. 1918.] [Illustration: INTERIOR OF THE SOUTHERN GALLERY, NOV. 1918.] The cloister, especially the south end, was often struck by German shells, one piercing the vaulting of a bay, another damaging the carvings of the exterior buttresses. The Refectory. The refectory (_photo below_), erected at the end of the 13th century, was spoiled after the Revolution by its conversion to military uses. [Illustration: REAR SIDE OF THE FAÇADE, CLOISTER AND REFECTORY, NOV. 1918.] [Illustration: WESTERN GALLERY OF THE CLOISTER AND THE REFECTORY.] The refectory, over 130 feet in length, contains two naves with pointed vaulting. The pointed arches rest on fine columns with foliate capitals, which are buttressed outside by piers engaged in the stone-work. Like all monastery refectories, it has a raised and vaulted platform, from which one of the monks read aloud during meals. The refectory, used as a store-house, is divided into two stories by a floor which runs below the capitals of the columns. Outside the refectory, on the side next the cloister, were six large rose-windows, since transformed into small rectangular windows, and on the west front, eight tierce-point windows, now blocked up. At the base of the loft-roof, set at intervals, are dormer-windows, whereof one Renaissance.