Monument record TR 26 NW 2 - Anglo-Saxon Minster and the ruins of St Mary's Church, Reculver

Summary

St Mary's Church c.669-15thc; Former site of Benedictine monastery founded AD 669 and destroyed by Vikings

Location

Grid reference Centred TR 2276 6935 (191m by 191m) Approximate
Map sheet TR26NW
Civil Parish HERNE BAY, CANTERBURY, KENT
County KENT
District CANTERBURY, KENT

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<1> Field report for monument TR 26 NW 2 - December, 1963, OS 6" 1961 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5839.

<1> OS 6" 1961 (OS Card Reference). SKE48369.

<2> Reculver Kent 1961 (MOW) (OS Card Reference). SKE49112.

<3> F1 AC 04-DEC-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE41756.

<4> Arch Ael 4th Series 25 1947 153 (E Gilbert) (OS Card Reference). SKE34471.

<5> Arch 77 1927 241-256 (C R Peers) (OS Card Reference). SKE34453.

<6> Arch Cant 3 1860 135-136 illus (OS Card Reference). SKE34976.

<7> Arch Cant 12 1878 248-268 (G Dowker) (OS Card Reference). SKE34662.

<8> Arch NL 2 1949-50 123 (E Martin-Clarke) (OS Card Reference). SKE36789.

<9> Arch J 53 1896 298-299 380 (J T Micklethwaite) (OS Card Reference). SKE36646.

<10> VCH Kent 2 1926 141-142 (R C Fowler) (OS Card Reference). SKE50944.

<11> The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist 9 22-32 (J Russell Larkby) 253-56 (F Grayling) (OS Card Reference). SKE50500.

<12> PSA Series 2 1 1861 369-373 (J B Sheppard) (OS Card Reference). SKE48852.

<13> Trans Dur and North Architect and Arch Soc 4 1890-5 liii (C C Hodges) (OS Card Reference). SKE50645.

<14> Arch J 125 1968 291-6 (H M Taylor) (OS Card Reference). SKE36538.

<15> The Arts in Early England 2 1925 (G B Brown) (OS Card Reference). SKE50093.

<16> Anglo Saxon Architecture III 1978 1109 (H M Taylor) (OS Card Reference). SKE33076.

<17> Arch J 130 121-122 (C A Ralegh Radford) (OS Card Reference). SKE36576.

<18> Med Arch 14 1970 161 (D M Wilson and D G Hurst) (OS Card Reference). SKE46729.

<19> Antiq J 53 1973 53 (H M Taylor) (OS Card Reference). SKE33252.

<20> Arch of Anglo Saxon England 1976 115 163 164 167 168 171 174 191 204 (D M Wilson) (OS Card Reference). SKE36811.

<21> Collect Antiq 6 1868 222 (OS Card Reference). SKE39184.

<22> Tanner's Notitia Monastica 1787 Krent XLVIII (Naismith) (OS Card Reference). SKE49812.

<23> Monasticon Anglicaum 1 1846 454-6 (W Dugdale) (OS Card Reference). SKE47326.

<24> English Roman Arch before the Conquest 1930 23-4 (Clapham) (OS Card Reference). SKE41655.

<25> Trans Aber Ex Soc III 90 Part 9 (OS Card Reference). SKE50620.

<26> Antiq and Topo Cabinet 4 1808 (J Storer) (OS Card Reference). SKE33245.

<27> DOWKER MSS (Collection). SKE6555.

<28> CAT Annual Report, 1992-3. (OS Card Reference). SKE38715.

<29> Hawkes, S.C., 1969, Early Anglo-Saxon Kent (Article in serial). SWX7826.

<30> Gem, Richard, 1995, Anglo-Saxon minsters of the Thames Estuary (Article in monograph). SWX9355.

<31> RCHME, 1995, Thames Gateway: Recording Historic Buildings And Landscapes On The Thames Estuary (Unpublished document). SKE17329.

<37> Jessup, R. F., 1936, Reculver, p.179-194 (Article in serial). SWX7288.

<38> Jessup, R. F., 1936, Reculver, p.179-194 (Article in serial). SWX7288.

<39> Taylor, H. M., Reculver Church (Article in serial). SWX9311.

<40> Kozodoy, R., 1986, The Reculver Cross (Article in serial). SWX9315.

<41> Trust For Thanet Archaeology, 1991, Intertidal Zone Minnis Bay-Reculver (Unpublished document). SWX7082.

<42> McKenzie, 1774, Coast of Kent from North Foreland to Isle of Sheppey (Chart). SWX8104.

<43> Stephenson, 1786, Survey of the East Swale (Chart). SWX7894.

<44> Trust For Thanet Archaeology, 1991, Intertidal Zone Minnis Bay-Reculver (Unpublished document). SWX7082.

<45> Kozodoy, R., 1986, The Reculver Cross (Article in serial). SWX9315.

<46> McKenzie, 1774, Coast of Kent from North Foreland to Isle of Sheppey (Chart). SWX8104.

<47> Taylor, H. M., Reculver Church (Article in serial). SWX9311.

<48> Stephenson, 1786, Survey of the East Swale (Chart). SWX7894.

<49> Historic England, 2022, Reculver Towers Reculver Lane Reculver Kent Tree-ring Analysis of an Oak Lintel (Unpublished document). SKE55162.

<50> 1988, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11674.

<51> 1976, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11661.

<52> 1988, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11671.

<53> 1948, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11681.

<54> 1941, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9950.

<55> 1976, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11660.

<56> 1988, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11670.

<57> Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11680.

<58> 1974, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10603.

<59> 1988, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11665.

<60> 1988, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11675.

<61> 1998, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10167.

<62> 1983, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11664.

<63> 1983, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11677.

<64> 1965, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11684.

<65> FOUNDATIONS OF EARLY SAXON CHURCH (EXCAVATED 1927).EXAMPLE OF EARLIEST DESIGN OF CHURCH - CF SILCHES (Photograph). SKE547.

<66> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9460.

<67> 1942, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9922.

<68> 1941, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9950.

<69> 1941, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10100.

<70> 1998, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10167.

<71> 1942, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9922.

<72> 1998, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10165.

<73> 1976, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11663.

<74> 1988, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11673.

<75> 1949, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11683.

<76> 1941, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10100.

<77> 1976, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11662.

<78> 1988, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11672.

<79> 1949, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11682.

<80> 1949, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10696.

<81> 1941, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9962.

<82> 1983, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11676.

<83> 1976, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11659.

<84> 1988, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11669.

<85> Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11679.

<86> FOUNDATIONS OF EARLY SAXON CHURCH (EXCAVATED 1927).EXAMPLE OF EARLIEST DESIGN OF CHURCH - CF SILCHES (Photograph). SKE547.

<87> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9460.

<88> 1976, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11658.

<90> Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11668.

<91> Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11678.

<92> Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11657.

<93> 1988, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11667.

<94> 1998, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10165.

<95> 1988, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11666.

<96> Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11678.

<97> 1988, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11671.

<98> 1988, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11672.

<99> 1988, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11673.

<100> 1988, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11674.

<101> 1988, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11675.

<102> 1988, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11670.

<103> 1983, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11677.

<104> 1949, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11682.

<105> Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11679.

<106> Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11680.

<107> 1948, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11681.

<108> 1974, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10603.

<109> 1949, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11683.

<110> 1941, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9962.

<111> 1983, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11676.

<112> 1976, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11659.

<113> 1965, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11684.

<114> 1988, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11669.

<115> 1949, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10696.

<116> Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11657.

<117> 1976, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11658.

<118> 1976, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11660.

<119> 1976, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11661.

<120> 1976, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11662.

<121> Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11668.

<122> 1983, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11664.

<123> 1988, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11665.

<124> 1988, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11666.

<125> 1988, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11667.

<126> 1976, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11663.

<127> Historic England, National Heritage List for England (Index). SKE29372.

<128> Historic England, Archive material associated with Church of St Mary and ruins of Reculver Monastery, Listed Building (Archive). SKE55252.

Sources/Archives (123)

  • <1> OS Card Reference: OS 6" 1961.
  • <1> Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 26 NW 2 - December, 1963. OS 6" 1961.
  • <2> OS Card Reference: Reculver Kent 1961 (MOW).
  • <3> OS Card Reference: F1 AC 04-DEC-63.
  • <4> OS Card Reference: Arch Ael 4th Series 25 1947 153 (E Gilbert).
  • <5> OS Card Reference: Arch 77 1927 241-256 (C R Peers).
  • <6> OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 3 1860 135-136 illus.
  • <7> OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 12 1878 248-268 (G Dowker).
  • <8> OS Card Reference: Arch NL 2 1949-50 123 (E Martin-Clarke).
  • <9> OS Card Reference: Arch J 53 1896 298-299 380 (J T Micklethwaite).
  • <10> OS Card Reference: VCH Kent 2 1926 141-142 (R C Fowler).
  • <11> OS Card Reference: The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist 9 22-32 (J Russell Larkby) 253-56 (F Grayling).
  • <12> OS Card Reference: PSA Series 2 1 1861 369-373 (J B Sheppard).
  • <13> OS Card Reference: Trans Dur and North Architect and Arch Soc 4 1890-5 liii (C C Hodges).
  • <14> OS Card Reference: Arch J 125 1968 291-6 (H M Taylor).
  • <15> OS Card Reference: The Arts in Early England 2 1925 (G B Brown).
  • <16> OS Card Reference: Anglo Saxon Architecture III 1978 1109 (H M Taylor).
  • <17> OS Card Reference: Arch J 130 121-122 (C A Ralegh Radford).
  • <18> OS Card Reference: Med Arch 14 1970 161 (D M Wilson and D G Hurst).
  • <19> OS Card Reference: Antiq J 53 1973 53 (H M Taylor).
  • <20> OS Card Reference: Arch of Anglo Saxon England 1976 115 163 164 167 168 171 174 191 204 (D M Wilson).
  • <21> OS Card Reference: Collect Antiq 6 1868 222.
  • <22> OS Card Reference: Tanner's Notitia Monastica 1787 Krent XLVIII (Naismith).
  • <23> OS Card Reference: Monasticon Anglicaum 1 1846 454-6 (W Dugdale).
  • <24> OS Card Reference: English Roman Arch before the Conquest 1930 23-4 (Clapham).
  • <25> OS Card Reference: Trans Aber Ex Soc III 90 Part 9.
  • <26> OS Card Reference: Antiq and Topo Cabinet 4 1808 (J Storer).
  • <27> Collection: DOWKER MSS.
  • <28> OS Card Reference: CAT Annual Report, 1992-3..
  • <29> Article in serial: Hawkes, S.C.. 1969. Early Anglo-Saxon Kent. 126, pages 186-92.
  • <30> Article in monograph: Gem, Richard. 1995. Anglo-Saxon minsters of the Thames Estuary. 41-54.
  • <31> Unpublished document: RCHME. 1995. Thames Gateway: Recording Historic Buildings And Landscapes On The Thames Estuary.
  • <37> Article in serial: Jessup, R. F.. 1936. Reculver. 10 (38), pages 179-94. p.179-194.
  • <38> Article in serial: Jessup, R. F.. 1936. Reculver. 10 (38), pages 179-94. p.179-194.
  • <39> Article in serial: Taylor, H. M.. Reculver Church. 126, p.225.
  • <40> Article in serial: Kozodoy, R.. 1986. The Reculver Cross. 108, p.67-94.
  • <41> Unpublished document: Trust For Thanet Archaeology. 1991. Intertidal Zone Minnis Bay-Reculver.
  • <42> Chart: McKenzie. 1774. Coast of Kent from North Foreland to Isle of Sheppey. chart.
  • <43> Chart: Stephenson. 1786. Survey of the East Swale. chart.
  • <44> Unpublished document: Trust For Thanet Archaeology. 1991. Intertidal Zone Minnis Bay-Reculver.
  • <45> Article in serial: Kozodoy, R.. 1986. The Reculver Cross. 108, p.67-94.
  • <46> Chart: McKenzie. 1774. Coast of Kent from North Foreland to Isle of Sheppey. chart.
  • <47> Article in serial: Taylor, H. M.. Reculver Church. 126, p.225.
  • <48> Chart: Stephenson. 1786. Survey of the East Swale. chart.
  • <49> Unpublished document: Historic England. 2022. Reculver Towers Reculver Lane Reculver Kent Tree-ring Analysis of an Oak Lintel.
  • <50> Photograph (Print): 1988. Photograph. TR2269/25. print.
  • <51> Photograph (Print): 1976. Photograph. TR2269/13. print.
  • <52> Photograph (Print): 1988. Photograph. TR2269/22. print.
  • <53> Photograph (Print): 1948. Photograph. TR2269/6. print.
  • <54> Photograph (Print): 1941. Photograph. 78. print.
  • <55> Photograph (Print): 1976. Photograph. TR2269/12. print.
  • <56> Photograph (Print): 1988. Photograph. TR2269/21. print.
  • <57> Photograph (Print): Photograph. TR2269/5. print.
  • <58> Photograph (Print): 1974. Photograph. BPZ 76 tr228694/8. print.
  • <59> Photograph (Print): 1988. Photograph. TR2269/17. print.
  • <60> Photograph (Print): 1988. Photograph. TR2269/26. print.
  • <61> Photograph (Print): 1998. Photograph. 3154. print.
  • <62> Photograph (Print): 1983. Photograph. TR2269/16. print.
  • <63> Photograph (Print): 1983. Photograph. TR2269/28. print.
  • <64> Photograph (Print): 1965. Photograph. TR2269/9. print.
  • <65> Photograph: FOUNDATIONS OF EARLY SAXON CHURCH (EXCAVATED 1927).EXAMPLE OF EARLIEST DESIGN OF CHURCH - CF SILCHES. P29090. Black and White. Print.
  • <66> Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 4024. print.
  • <67> Photograph (Print): 1942. Photograph. 6087. print.
  • <68> Photograph (Print): 1941. Photograph. 78. print.
  • <69> Photograph (Print): 1941. Photograph. 21. print.
  • <70> Photograph (Print): 1998. Photograph. 3154. print.
  • <71> Photograph (Print): 1942. Photograph. 6087. print.
  • <72> Photograph (Print): 1998. Photograph. 1368. print.
  • <73> Photograph (Print): 1976. Photograph. TR2269/15. print.
  • <74> Photograph (Print): 1988. Photograph. TR2269/24. print.
  • <75> Photograph (Print): 1949. Photograph. TR2269/8. print.
  • <76> Photograph (Print): 1941. Photograph. 21. print.
  • <77> Photograph (Print): 1976. Photograph. TR2269/14. print.
  • <78> Photograph (Print): 1988. Photograph. TR2269/23. print.
  • <79> Photograph (Print): 1949. Photograph. TR2269/7. print.
  • <80> Photograph (Print): 1949. Photograph. DY 55-59 tr228694/3. print.
  • <81> Photograph (Print): 1941. Photograph. 59. print.
  • <82> Photograph (Print): 1983. Photograph. TR2269/27. print.
  • <83> Photograph (Print): 1976. Photograph. TR2269/11. print.
  • <84> Photograph (Print): 1988. Photograph. TR2269/20. print.
  • <85> Photograph (Print): Photograph. TR2269/4. print.
  • <86> Photograph: FOUNDATIONS OF EARLY SAXON CHURCH (EXCAVATED 1927).EXAMPLE OF EARLIEST DESIGN OF CHURCH - CF SILCHES. P29090. Black and White. Print.
  • <87> Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 4024. print.
  • <88> Photograph (Print): 1976. Photograph. TR2269/10. print.
  • <90> Photograph (Print): Photograph. TR2269/2. print.
  • <91> Photograph (Print): Photograph. TR2269/3. print.
  • <92> Photograph (Print): Photograph. TR2269/1. print.
  • <93> Photograph (Print): 1988. Photograph. TR2269/19. print.
  • <94> Photograph (Print): 1998. Photograph. 1368. print.
  • <95> Photograph (Print): 1988. Photograph. TR2269/18. print.
  • <96> Photograph (Print): Photograph. TR2269/3. print.
  • <97> Photograph (Print): 1988. Photograph. TR2269/22. print.
  • <98> Photograph (Print): 1988. Photograph. TR2269/23. print.
  • <99> Photograph (Print): 1988. Photograph. TR2269/24. print.
  • <100> Photograph (Print): 1988. Photograph. TR2269/25. print.
  • <101> Photograph (Print): 1988. Photograph. TR2269/26. print.
  • <102> Photograph (Print): 1988. Photograph. TR2269/21. print.
  • <103> Photograph (Print): 1983. Photograph. TR2269/28. print.
  • <104> Photograph (Print): 1949. Photograph. TR2269/7. print.
  • <105> Photograph (Print): Photograph. TR2269/4. print.
  • <106> Photograph (Print): Photograph. TR2269/5. print.
  • <107> Photograph (Print): 1948. Photograph. TR2269/6. print.
  • <108> Photograph (Print): 1974. Photograph. BPZ 76 tr228694/8. print.
  • <109> Photograph (Print): 1949. Photograph. TR2269/8. print.
  • <110> Photograph (Print): 1941. Photograph. 59. print.
  • <111> Photograph (Print): 1983. Photograph. TR2269/27. print.
  • <112> Photograph (Print): 1976. Photograph. TR2269/11. print.
  • <113> Photograph (Print): 1965. Photograph. TR2269/9. print.
  • <114> Photograph (Print): 1988. Photograph. TR2269/20. print.
  • <115> Photograph (Print): 1949. Photograph. DY 55-59 tr228694/3. print.
  • <116> Photograph (Print): Photograph. TR2269/1. print.
  • <117> Photograph (Print): 1976. Photograph. TR2269/10. print.
  • <118> Photograph (Print): 1976. Photograph. TR2269/12. print.
  • <119> Photograph (Print): 1976. Photograph. TR2269/13. print.
  • <120> Photograph (Print): 1976. Photograph. TR2269/14. print.
  • <121> Photograph (Print): Photograph. TR2269/2. print.
  • <122> Photograph (Print): 1983. Photograph. TR2269/16. print.
  • <123> Photograph (Print): 1988. Photograph. TR2269/17. print.
  • <124> Photograph (Print): 1988. Photograph. TR2269/18. print.
  • <125> Photograph (Print): 1988. Photograph. TR2269/19. print.
  • <126> Photograph (Print): 1976. Photograph. TR2269/15. print.
  • <127>XY Index: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. [Mapped feature: #905 Church, ]
  • <128> Archive: Historic England. Archive material associated with Church of St Mary and ruins of Reculver Monastery, Listed Building.

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Related Events/Activities (7)

  • Non-Intrusive Event: Investigation by RCHME/EH Architectural Survey (EKE19937)
  • Non-Intrusive Event: Archaeological implications report, Reculver Caravan Park, 2008 (EKE19657)
  • Non-Intrusive Event: Desk based assessment of the North Thanet Shore (EWX6617)
  • Intrusive Event: Reculver Towers Reculver Lane Reculver Kent Tree-ring Analysis of an Oak Lintel (Ref: 7/2022) (EKE21835)
  • Intrusive Event: ST MARY'S CHURCH,RECULVER (Ref: EI 15010) (EKE3985)
  • Intrusive Event: ST MARY'S CHURCH,RECULVER, 1870-79 (Ref: EI 15008) (EKE3983)
  • Intrusive Event: ST MARY'S CHURCH,RECULVER, 1926/7 (Ref: EI 15009) (EKE3984)

Record last edited

Jan 16 2023 1:33PM