What is an Orriell?

[venelow]

Good Day Roots Chatters

Has anyone come across the word Orriell? I am transcribing a PCC Will from the late 1500s.

One line reads:

  "Item I give him more all the Wares in the Cheste in the Orriell which is Lace and such like stuff."

I can only find Orriell as a surname or possibly a place name. The second and third letters are definitely two "Rs" as written in the words more and Wares.

It sounds like it is a room in the house or maybe an out-building.

Any thoughts? 

Venelow.
Canada

[MollyC]

Modern spelling is oriel, some kind of a window, projecting from an upper storey.  Perhaps storing goods in the window recess.

[Jebber]

I have never come  across such a spelling. All I know of is an Oriel which is a type of window that protrudes from the wall, common in historic buildings.

[Jebber]

Molly C just beat me to it.

[Vance Mead]

In the Middle English Dictionary: a bay window, a balcony, a room containing an Oriell.

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED30890/track?counter=2&search_id=63306234

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary

[Viktoria]

Yes oriel also means a room with an oriel window, as Vance has said.
He beat me to it.
Viktoria.

[Gadget]

....and an Oxford college

https://www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/our-history/


Gadget

[ThrelfallYorky]

Yes, Oriel college, or the window shape / structure. Clear enough.
TY

[venelow]

Good Morning

Thank you for your responses. It makes perfect sense that the chest was situated in the bay window space of the oriel. I had heard of oriel before but I associated it with public buildings like churches or colleges. The testator, John Bowdler of Shrewsbury, must have had a pretty fancy house. I think he may have been a draper hence the lace and stuff in the chest which he refers to as wares.

Thanks again
Venelow
Canada