The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain Accompanied with descriptions . ii!illSL,i,i!ililllillllilll!!llll^^^ ST. AUCUSTINES MONASTERY, CANTERBURY, KENT. This nionasterj was originally founded by the great apostkof Britain, St. Augustine, as a place of sepulture for himself,and his successors in the see of Canterbury, and for the kingEthelbert, and his successors, kings of Kent, and dedicatedby him to St. Peter and St. Paul; but from the period of hisdeath it has always been called S
The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain Accompanied with descriptions . ii!illSL,i,i!ililllillllilll!!llll^^^ ST. AUCUSTINES MONASTERY, CANTERBURY, KENT. This nionasterj was originally founded by the great apostkof Britain, St. Augustine, as a place of sepulture for himself,and his successors in the see of Canterbury, and for the kingEthelbert, and his successors, kings of Kent, and dedicatedby him to St. Peter and St. Paul; but from the period of hisdeath it has always been called St. Augustines. At the dissolution, in 1539, the revenues of the abbeyamounted, according to Dugdale, to 1413/. 14*. ll^rf. Soooafter which time, the principal buildings were stripped oftheir lead, and some of them left to perish by degrees; butthe destruction was accelerated by entire edifices being oc-casionally pulled down, and the materials converted to otheruses. The great gate, with the adjoining buildings to thesouth, with some others, were however kept standing, andHenry the Eighth is said to have converted them into apalace for himself and his successors, and to have h
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