The Chapter House, forming a square with a ceiling in diagonal rib voulting, supported by four bundle-column pillars with octogonal capitals, was, after the Church itself, the community´s most important place. Here the friars elected their abbots, dealt with important matters made public accusation against those in default as regards observance of the Rule, distributed work and performed the cerimony of monastic profession of new monks. Every morning, after the office of Prime, the comunity met here to hear a chapter of the Rule of Saint Benedict, read from a pulpit in the centre of the room. The monks sat on benches with their backs against the wall. In the centre, facing the door, was the Abbot´s chair.