Built in the 1350s, the Refectory was where the Franciscan Nuns, also known as the Poor Clares, would dine together as a community.

They would often sit in silence while one of the nuns read spiritual texts aloud from the pulpit.

After the dissolution of Denny Abbey in 1530, the refectory was the only building of the Franciscan nuns’ new buildings to survive. It was converted and used as a barn for housing grain and cows until the 1940s.

During the 1980s, archeaologists unovered an almost complete Medieval tiled floor, and part of it can be seen today in-situ. The tiles are almost all plain, with either dark green or black and yellow glazes.