“…This topographical and architectural layout ensured an enclosure which served as much to defend the place as to symbolize the religious community's search for relegation, away from the tumult of the urban world, even though it was fully integrated into the socio-economic activities of the city 9 . It was the same in Toulouse where the church of Saint-Jean, the dormitory, the refectory, the kitchen and the cellar of the priory of the Hospital built intra muros were organized at the end of the twelfth century around a conventual quadrilateral and its cloister 10 . At the beginning of the 1180s, the brothers proceeded to modify their block of buildings and built a new enclosure, materialized by a surrounding wall with its porch 11 .…”