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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.
Minster, also known as Minster-in-Thanet, is a village and civil parish in the Thanet District of Kent, England.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.
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 ...
Name Location Type Completed [note 1] Date designated Grid ref. [note 2] Geo-coordinates Entry number [note 3] Image; 124 High Street Ramsgate: House: Early 18th century: 4 February 1988
Map of north-east Kent, showing Shuart, St Nicholas-at-Wade, Reculver and Canterbury All Saints' Church, Shuart (/ ˈ ʃ oʊ ɑː t /), in the north-west of the Isle of Thanet, Kent, in the south-east of England, was established in the Anglo-Saxon period as a chapel of ease for the parish of St Mary's Church, Reculver, which was centred on the north-eastern corner of mainland Kent, adjacent to ...
Minster Abbey * Benedictine nuns founded 1937; built on site of the earlier abbey (see immediately above); extant Minster in Thanet Nunnery Benedictine nuns founded c.750, built by Ermengitha, sister of Domneva destroyed? in raids by the Danes 980 Minster in Thanet Priory Benedictine monks founded c.670, granted to Domneva by King Egbert, her ...
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In the late 2000s, four Catholic parishes which covered the south west of Thanet were merged into one. In February 2009 this was named the Parish of Ramsgate and Minster, with St Ethelbert's as the parish church. In 2010, the Benedictine Monks of St Augustine’s Abbey voted to leave their Ramsgate monastery in the parish.