The Community of St Alcuin’s Abbey
(Not all members are mentioned in The Hour before Dawn.)
Fully professed monks
| Abbot John Hazell | formerly the infirmarian |
| Father Chad | prior |
| Brother Ambrose | cellarer |
| Fr. Wm. de Bulmer | cellarer’s assistant (formerly an Augustinian prior) |
| Father Theodore | novice master |
| Father Gilbert | precentor |
| Brother Clement | overseer of the scriptorium |
| Father Dominic | guest master |
| Brother Thomas | abbot’s esquire, also involved with the farm and building repairs |
| Father Francis | scribe |
| Father Bernard | sacristan |
| Brother Martin | porter |
| Brother Thaddeus | potter |
| Brother Michael | infirmarian |
| Brother Damien | helps in the infirmary |
| Brother Cormac | kitchener |
| Brother Richard | fraterer |
| Brother Stephen | oversees the abbey farm |
| Brother Peter | ostler |
| Brother Josephus | acted as esquire for Father Chad between abbots; now working in the abbey school |
| Brother Germanus | has worked on the farm, occupied in the wood yard and gardens |
| Brother Mark | too old for taxing occupation, but keeps the bees |
| Brother Paulinus | works in the kitchen garden and orchards |
| Brother Prudentius | now old, helps on the farm and in the kitchen garden and orchards |
| Brother Fidelis | now old, oversees the flower gardens |
| Father James | makes and mends robes, occasionally works in the scriptorium |
| Brother Walafrid | herbalist, oversees the brew house |
| Brother Giles | assists Brother Walafrid and works in the laundry |
| Brother Basil | old, assists the sacristan—ringing the bell for the office hours, etc. |
Fully professed monks now confined to the infirmary through frailty of old age
| Father Gerald | once sacristan |
| Brother Denis | scribe |
| Father Paul | once precentor |
| Brother Edward | onetime infirmarian, now living in the infirmary but active enough to help there and occasionally attend Chapter and the daytime hours of worship |
Novices
| Brother Benedict | assists in the infirmary |
| Brother Boniface | helps in the scriptorium |
| Brother Cassian | works in the school |
| Brother Cedd | helps in the scriptorium and when required in the robing room |
| Brother Conradus | assists in the kitchen |
| Brother Felix | helps Father Gilbert |
| Brother Placidus | helps on the farm |
| Brother Robert | assists in the pottery |
Members of the community mentioned in earlier stories and now deceased
Abbot Gregory of the Resurrection
Abbot Columba du Fayel (also known as Father Peregrine)
| Father Matthew | novice master |
| Brother Cyprian | porter |
| Father Aelred | schoolmaster |
| Father Lucanus | novice master before Father Matthew |
| Father Anselm | once robe maker |
| Brother Andrew | kitchener |