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OF THE MONASTERY OF ST. GALL.
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OF THE MONASTERY OF ST. GALL. 93 vestibule of entrance, of which the northern one conducts to the hospitium of the distinguished guests and to the school, and the southern to the paupers' hospitium, as well as to the monastery in general". Two circular towers are also appended to this semicircular cloister. Besides the western doors of the church, by which the public were admitted, the plan shews a door in the south aisle which leads to the chamber occupied by the keeper of the paupers' hospitium, and a corresponding one in the north aisle to the porter's chambers. In the north transept a door opens to the chambers appropriated to ecclesiastical guests, another to the abbot's house, a third leads to the scriptorium, and a fourth to the crypt and to the stairs of the library. In the south transept is a door to the cloister, one to the dormi- tory, or to the room below it, one to the sacristy, and lastly one to the crypt. The entire plan of the church is divided by screens into various chapels and choirs. In the north aisle there are four altars, each of which is placed on the west side of a small screen, which extends from the side aisle wall to the back of the altar, and the altar has also a little enclosure about it, with a door to the west. But space is left for a passage between this enclosure and the pillar of the nave, over against which the altar stands. There is a similar arrangement in the south aisle. The north altars are dedicated respectively to St. Cecilia, the Holy Innocents, St. Martin, and St. Stephen, reckoning from west to east; and the south altars similarly to St. Agnes, St. Sebastian, St. Mauritius, and St. Lawrence. In the centre line of the nave, opposite to the third pillar from the west, stands the font, and opposite to the fourth pillar an isolated enclosure like those of the side aisle protects an altar dedicated to St. John Baptist and St. John the Evan- gelist, thus placed evidently with respect to the font. A space to the west of the font is enclosed by screens, passing from pillar to pillar of the nave. Opposite to the sixth pillar, and in the middle of the nave,


  • r1 The long alley has the following

verses- "Omnibus ad sacrum turbis patet hæc via templum Quo sua vota ferant, unde hilares re- deant." The first, or western vestibule :- "Adreniens aditum populus hic cunctus habebit."

The northern vestibule:- "Exiet hic hospes, vel Templi tecta sub- ibit Discentis scholæ pulchra juventa simul."

The southern vestibule:- "Tota Monasterio famulantum hic turba subintrat."

  • r2 "Ecce renascentes susceptat Christus alumnos."
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