cloisters: a columned walk in a monastery or abbey; a courtyard with arches or columns or pillars around it or with an open colonnade on one side ,for monks to walk and pray.
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Pictures from Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes by Andrew Lang, M.A., sometime Fellow of Merton College, Oxford [1844 – 1912]; sixth edition, Seely & Co. Ltd., London, 1896.
There are some more pictures of Oxford done by Haslehust, in colour.
I am working on a transcription of this book. I found one online at worldwideschool.org but it lacks the images, and has many errors.
There is also an entry in the Nuttall Encyclopædia for Andrew Lang.
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