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  2. Refectory table - Wikipedia

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    Refectory table. A refectory table is a highly elongated table [1] used originally for dining in monasteries during Medieval times. In the Late Middle Ages, the table gradually became a banqueting or feasting table in castles and other noble residences. The original table manufacture was by hand and created of oak or walnut; the design is based ...

  3. Iona Nunnery - Wikipedia

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    The Iona Nunnery was an Augustinian convent of nuns located on the island of Iona in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It was established sometime after the foundation of the nearby Benedictine monastery in 1203 by Ranald, son of Somerled. Bethóc, daughter of Somerled, and sister of Ranald, was first prioress. The ruins of the nunnery stand in a ...

  4. Refectory - Wikipedia

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    Refectory. A refectory (also frater, frater house, fratery) is a dining room, especially in monasteries, boarding schools and academic institutions. One of the places the term is most often used today is in graduate seminaries. The name derives from the Latin reficere "to remake or restore," via Late Latin refectorium, which means "a place one ...

  5. The Last Supper (Ghirlandaio) - Wikipedia

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    The work is known for the various expressive facial reactions and bodily actions, like hand gestures of the different figures at the table. [2] The Ognissanti piece also is placed at the end architectural bay of the refectory rather than the middle. [2] The main table is U-shaped and is located on the entire east-side wall of the actually ...

  6. Trestle table - Wikipedia

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    Trestle tables with free-standing trestles in the c.1955 microbiology lab of Joseph Lister. In woodworking, a trestle table is a table consisting of two or three trestle supports, often linked by a stretcher (longitudinal cross-member), over which a board or tabletop is placed. [1] In the Middle Ages, the trestle table was often little more ...

  7. Lavatorium - Wikipedia

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    Lavatorium. 14th-century lavatorium at Gloucester Cathedral. A lavatorium (plural lavatoria), also anglicised as laver and lavatory, was the communal washing area in a monastery, particularly in medieval abbeys and cathedral cloisters. Monks were required to wash before meals; thus the lavatorium was typically adjacent to the refectory.

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