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The position of the kitchen was so planned
as to communicate readily on one side with the
monks' frater, which was served from it through a
turn-table in the wall, and the frater of the lay
brothers on the other, which was served at Fountains
through a hatch in the west wall. It had a doorway
from the cloister, which brought it into close connexion
with the cellar and buttery in the western
range; while at the back a door opened into a yard,
where fuel could be kept. The fireplaces at Fountains
and Kirkstall, where the kitchens were vaulted, were
placed back to back in the middle of the room.
Kitchens of the size of those at Durham or Glastonbury
were unknown in Cistercian houses, where, even
after the relaxation of the ordinary simple diet, meat
was never cooked in the frater kitchen. The plan,
which provided for the simultaneous supply of two
fraters when necessary, was more compact and less
secular in some of its features than the Benedictine
plan; while the actual admission of the kitchen into
the cloister buildings was made possible by the fact
that the monks themselves did their own work, instead
of using hired servants under the superintendence of
the kitchener.