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• This was the monks' toilet.
• They sat over holes in wooden benches. Everything fell straight down into the river running underneath the building to be washed clean away.
• The monks were spoilt. Running water in houses was very unusual in medieval times.
• Ordinary people didn't have toilets. They used cess pits, or just went in the street!