St Augustine's Abbey, re-used Roman masonry in the porch of St Pancras Chapel, part of the Anglo-Saxon monastery established by St Augustine c 598
Looking eastwards through the porch at the remains of St Pancras Chapel within the precincts of St Augustine's Abbey. Built of re-used Roman materials including red bricks and stone columns, it was the most easterly of the four chapels of the original Anglo-Saxon monastery established by St Augustine in AD598. The chancel apse was rebuilt with a square end and large east window in the late 1300s. It later served as a cemetery chapel and was home to a hermit in 1494. The C14th monks believed the chapel to have been built as a pagan temple by King Ethelbert prior to his conversion to Christianity.
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Location: St Pancras Chapel, St Augustine's Abbey, Monastery Street, Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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