coggeshall abbey 1185

brave the unfriendly owner to view this early brickwork from the public footpath that she wishes was not on her land! this building was seperate from but at the southern extremity of the east range, and is now a semi derelict and very private barn. it seems to be aligned with the river blackwater, which may even have passed through it before the main reredorter to the north became a farmhouse; could it have been the reredorter of the infirmary ? see also the capella ante portas down the road for brick of the same period.