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Nunnery Annex


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North Rooms with Door to Inner Room

East facade and front steps of Nunnery Annex, Nunnery behind.
Nov. 1999
Nunnery Annex being stabilized and restored.
Jan. 2001
Door leading from collapsed outer room to magnificent, recently opened inner room.
Jan. 2001
Looking along east facade, showing that major outside room has collapsed; at far right is door leading to inner room.
Jan. 2002
Surviving vault of outer room, covered during restoration; the facing stones expertly fitted.
Jan. 2001
Cross-section of end wall at far north of vault; Nunnery North Building behind.
Jan. 2001
Fresh looking, evenly placed jamb stones suggest recent reconstruction.
Jan. 2002
Fallen stones of collapsed front room.
Jan. 2002
Typical so-called "boot stone", shaped to be tenoned into wall with face squared and smoothed, as in photo above.
Jan. 2002
Looking from collapsed outer room through doorway into inner back room.
Jan. 2002
Looking out through dooway of inner room.
Jan. 2002 (flash)
Lintels of same doorway, stabilized.
Jan. 2002 (flash)
 

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