The cloister's former volume has been conserved but it was entirely restored in the 19th century. The tierce-point windows and ribbed vaults within the rooms demonstrate the effort made by the sisters to restore the Gothic forms of the Abbey.
Originally, the building contained a ground-floor sacristy, the chapter (capitulary) room and the monks' room. In the 19th century the monks' parlour, in the centre of the building, housed the wheel that drove the spinning machines of the cotton mill, for which the monks' room and the chapter room were destroyed. The monks' dormitory was located on the single upper floor and was connected to the latrines.
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