It is somewhat reminiscent of a chapter-house, baptistery, or even some monastic kitchens, though at a greatly inflated scale. ❋ Unknown (2009)
De Soulis halted to favour them both with a courtly reverence, and withdrew at leisure towards the chapter-house. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Cadfael went to supper in the refectory, and then to Collations in the chapter-house, which he often missed if he had vulnerable preparations brewing in his workshop. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He emerged from the chapter-house feeling renewed, and it came at first as no more than a mild surprise when Brother Edmund came seeking him before Compline, looking almost episcopal as he brandished in one hand what at first sight might have been a crozier, but when lowered to the ground reached no higher than his armpit, and was manifestly a crutch. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Bishop Henry was just rising to call the assembly to order, when hasty footsteps and a brusque but civil demand for passage started the crowding watchers apart, and let through into the centre of the chapter-house a tall newcomer, still cloaked and booted for riding. ❋ Unknown (2010)
So marked a tendency to mass as for battle boded no good, however freely friends might come together across the divide once out of the chapter-house. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Now she had recalled the approaching hour and the exigence of her service, and turned to depart, to attend her mistress again to the door of the chapter-house. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In the chapter-house of Saint Mary's Priory, after solemn Mass, the sovereignty and nobility of England met in full session. ❋ Unknown (2010)
When Cadfael manoeuvred his way as close as he could to the doorway of the chapter-house, it seemed that Bishop de Clinton had ceded the presidium on this occasion to the Bishop of Winchester, perhaps hopeful that so powerful a prelate would exert more influence upon obdurate minds, by virtue of his royal blood, and his prestige as recently filling the office of papal legate to the realm of England. ❋ Unknown (2010)
“Mademoiselle Evangelista, as the daughter of a merchant, will certainly not open the doors of the chapter-house of Cologne to him!” ❋ Unknown (2007)
I have the necessary quarterings to make my entry into any court or chapter-house in Europe. ❋ Unknown (2007)
To be sure, I had some light moments in it, because when gloom goes too far it becomes ridiculous; and I did think the convent gardens as I saw them from the chapter-house window were beautiful, and the hills around majestic and serious, with no intention of falling upon my prostrate spirit. ❋ Unknown (2004)
On the north side of the choir, the chapter-house, which is roofed with an arch of stone, remains entire; and on the south side, another mass of building, which we could not enter, is preserved by the care of the family of Gordon; but the body of the church is a mass of fragments. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He conducted me through a portal rich with the crumbling sculpture of former ages, which opened upon a gloomy passage leading to the chapter-house and the chamber in which doomsday book is deposited. ❋ Unknown (2002)
