The Courtyard is placed where the original cloister of the convent was located. The convent consists of the church, the cloister, and the dormitory. An arched tower and three sided cloister of the Abbey Church still survive. The palace was built around a quadrangle, situated west of the abbey cloister. Nuns were to be silent in places of prayer, the cloister, the dormitory, and refectory. On the south side of the cloister was the refectory. A Carthusian monastery consists of a number of individual cells built around a cloister. The cathedral has the largest cloister and the largest cathedral close in Britain at . The Gothic house was constructed on the site of the abbey's former west cloister. The cloister, frater (refectory) and kitchen were totally rebuilt. The prehistoric exhibits are on the first floor of the cloister colonnade. East of Frosinone lies an early gothic Cistercian cloister. The courtyard was remodelled by Leoni, who gave it a rusticated cloister on all sides. The adjoining cloister was completed in 1604. The tympanum also provides an example of cloister wit.