ABSTRACT
The enormous cost of the new choir acted as a natural restraint upon further large-scale work within the monastery. One limited operation doubtless prompted by the fire of 1174 was the vaulting of the cellarer's hall to the north of the monastic kitchen. By the end of the twelfth century, a modus vivendi had been established within the cathedral precincts, and for the last years of his archiepiscopacy the aged Hubert Walter won the affection of the convent. The Romanesque columns of the Lady Chapel were retained in the new work, though their capitals were altered and the groin vaults were smothered with painting. The eastern vault depicts the heavens, with a multitude of stars once containing convex mirrors that twinkled in the dim candlelight of the chapel.
