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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.
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 ...
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, 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.
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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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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.