Ipswich UAD child record record IPS 1334 - Dominican Friary Chapter House

The chapter house had two distinct building phases. In its original form, it had been contained within the width of the range as a whole (7m, east-west) but it had been extended east in the second phase to 10.3m. It was 6.6m north-south in both phases. Much of the west and all of the south walls had been robbed. The Kirby (1748) and Davy (1846) elevations of the west wall show that it had a central doorway with windows on both sides, which was the standard arrangement for Dominican chapter houses.
The tiled floor, which survived over much of the western two thirds, ended in a distinct north-south line 7m from the west wall, corresponding to the original east wall line. The remnant of a low wall on the same line at the north end, indicates a raised floor level, for the remaining 3.2m within the eastward extension. The original tile floor, composed of smaller tiles, had been replaced with larger tiles over seven graves.(S1).