Canterbury, Kent: looking NW, St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury Cathedral, Bell Harry Tower and Victorian buildings (R) used by the King's School.
A general view looking NW over the ruined church of St Augustine's Abbey at Longport, Canterbury, with Christ Church Cathedral and Bell Harry Tower to the rear. The Victorian buildings on the right are used by the King's School. The monastery was founded by St Augustine around 598, near the site of a Roman cemetery outside the city walls. An Anglo-Saxon monastery with four separate small churches built in an east-west line became a Norman Benedictine abbey with a Romanesque style church. The abbey was Dissolved in 1538, and in 1539 Henry VIII converted the Abbot's lodgings to a palace for Anne of Cleves. The same area around the monastic Great Court was rebuilt in the 1840s by William Butterfield as St Augustine's Missionary College. Its buildings are owned by the St Augustine's Foundation and are used by the King's School. The abbey ruins are in the care of English Heritage and are part of the Canterbury World Heritage Site.
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Location: Monastery Street, Longport, Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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