Listed Building: REMAINS OF MONASTIC BUILDING, NOW OUTBUILDING (1085443)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1413, 4, 5
Date assigned 13 August 1968
Date last amended

Description

MANSTON MANSTON COURT ROAD TR 3466-3566 (east side) 4/5 Remains of monastic building, 13.8.68 now outbuilding GV II Probable first floor hall, now outbuilding. Circa 1235 and extended C18. Flint with Caen stone dressings and with plain tiled roof extended with brick and plain tiled roof. Main building of 2 storeys, with parapet gables, stair turret and arched lights to east (right return), 2 large segmentally headed openings on first floor, and smaller casement with carriage doors to left on ground floor. Brick surround garret window on left return. The remains of a fireplace-back survive on the upper floor, making the traditional view of the building as a chapel unlikely, it is more probably a first-floor hall house associated with the monastic grange of St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury. Single storey range added to left C18, with 2 boarded doors and wooden casement, and stack at end left. (See Archaeologia Cantiana, no. 12, p.376). Listing NGR: TR3432866655

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  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TR 3432 6665 (point)
Map sheet TR36NW
Civil Parish MANSTON, THANET, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 9:41AM