- The
calefactory (also
warming house) was an
important room or
building in a
medieval monastery in
Western Europe. In the
present day it is a communal...
- east side of the cloister, on the
ground floor, was the "pisalis" or "
calefactory". This was a
common room,
warmed by
flues beneath the floor.
Above the...
- However, an
evolution of the
hypocaust was used in some
monasteries in
calefactories, or
warming rooms,
which were
heated via
underground fires, as in the...
-
Warming House may
refer to: A
calefactory, a
common part of a
medieval monastery Warming House (Denver, Colorado), a
Denver landmark This disambiguation...
-
calor "heat" caldarium, caldera, calefacient, calefaction, calefactive,
calefactory, calenture, calescent, calid, calor, calore, caloric, calorie, calorifacient...
-
heated rooms,
Maulbronn has a
calefactory that was
heated by
lighting a fire in a
vaulted chamber underneath the
calefactory.
Smoke was
funneled outside...
- Plan of the abbey. It
includes a
calefactory (heated room) and
domus conversorum (quarters for lay brothers)....
- are the
abbey church, cloister, dormitory,
chapter house and the
small calefactory, the one
heated space in the
austere surroundings, so that the monks...
- dormitory,
overlooking the
green court or herbarium, lay the "pisalis" or "
calefactory", the
common room of the monks. At its
northeast corner access was given...
- the
suggestion of the
marshal in the 1970s. Kalfaktor,
derived from
calefactory and
entering the
Swedish language during the 17th century, was a soldier...
