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The division of an aisleless nave by screens
is well illustrated at Lilleshall, where the bases of the
pulpitum and rood-screen both remain, and there
was a wall further west which screened the nave
from a vaulted vestibule, apparently planned as the
ground-floor of a tower. Examples of aisleless naves
are found in churches of all orders. Instances of
Benedictine churches, such as St Benet's, Hulme, in
Norfolk, are known, where this plan seems out of
keeping with the importance and wealth of the
convent. The Cluniac priory church of Bromholm
is another case from the same county. Salley, a
Cistercian church on the borders of Yorkshire and
Lancashire, had a fully aisled quire, but a very short
aisleless nave, which was little more than a vestibule
to the church and covered only the eastern part of
the north walk of the cloister. The nave of the
Scottish abbey of Kelso, which belonged to the order
of Thiron, was also a mere vestibule or
narthex, and
forms a striking contrast to the long nave, with north
and south aisles, of the neighbouring Augustinian
church of Jedburgh.