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This chamber is on the level of the Grand Refectory, in the square base of the tower. Covered crossed – ribbed vault. All paintings (discovered in 1928–1933) were built on the order of bishop Lukas Watzenrode (1489–1512), Nicolas Copernicus’s uncle. They show four biblical topics: Adoration of God, Saint John from Patmos, Abraham and Moses sacrifice on the Sinai Mountain, Saint Veronica’s scarf. Also coat-of-arms of Warmia’s Bishopric (left wall, straight from the enter) and the founder, bishop Lukas Watzenrode (right wall, straight from the enter). In the windows’ alcove we’ve coat-of-arms of Lukas Watzenrode’s predecessors – from left Paul Legendorf (1458–1467), in the middle John Abezier (1415–1424) and on the right Nicolas Tungen (1467–1489). In the same time a wall has been painted with merlon.
From the vestibule, stairwell inside the wall, is a walk down to the prison, straight under the chapel, directly above the chapel was the treasure in the XVII–XVIII c.