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Minster Abbey is the name of two abbeys in Minster-in-Thanet, Kent, England. The first was a 7th-century foundation which lasted until the Dissolution of the Monasteries . Beside its ruins is St Mildred's Priory , a Benedictine community of women founded in 1937.
It is the site of Minster in Thanet Priory. The village is west of Ramsgate (which is the post town) and to the north east of Canterbury; it lies just south west of Kent International Airport and just north of the River Stour. Minster is also the "ancient capital of Thanet". [2] At the 2011 Census the hamlet of Ebbsfleet was included.
St Mary's chapel was built on the site of the shrine, although 1601 refers to the date it was restored and not the date of the original structure. The Shrine of Our Ladye Star of the Sea was an old chapel on the cliffs at Broadstairs (which was formerly known as Bradstowe). Dating back at least to the 1350s, the two towers of the chapel were a ...
The Digby Chantry Chapel (the Chapel of St John the Evangelist) was built in 1859, [10] and St Joseph's Chapel was built in 1893 by Viscountess Southwell to mark the coming of age of her son, who had been educated at the monks' school in Ramsgate (St Augustine's College). [11] The central tower of the church, with its spire, was never completed.
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Broadstairs is a coastal town on the Isle of Thanet in the Thanet district of east Kent, England, about 80 miles (130 km) east of London.It is part of the civil parish of Broadstairs and St Peter's, which includes St Peter's, and had a population in 2011 of about 25,000.
Minster in Thanet Priory, on the Isle of Thanet, Kent. Domne Eafe (Old English pronunciation: [ˈdomne ˈæɑve]; floruit late 7th century), also Domneva, Domne Éue, Æbbe, Ebba, was, according to the Kentish royal legend, a granddaughter of King Eadbald of Kent and the foundress of the double monastery of Minster in Thanet Priory at Minster-in-Thanet during the reign of her cousin King ...
Chapel House may refer to: in the United Kingdom. Chapel House Estate, England; Chapel House, Twickenham, Greater London, occupied at one time by Alfred Lord Tennyson; Chapel House, Monmouth, Wales; in the United States. Chapel House (Guilderland, New York), listed on U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Albany County, New York