Monument record TR 34 SW 1327 - Site of the Strangers hall at Dover Priory, Effingham Street, Dover.
Summary
Location
Grid reference | Centred TR 3143 4162 (31m by 30m) Extant |
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Map sheet | TR34SW |
County | KENT |
District | DOVER, KENT |
Civil Parish | DOVER, DOVER, KENT |
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Full Description
The Strangers Hall of Dover Priory is located on the northern side of the complex and is today in use as Dover College's chapel and is a GII* listed building. A description of the above and below ground features associated with the priory given in 1861 notes that it was at the back of the farmhouse. 'It is divided externally by buttresses into six bays, with a turret, as if for a bell, at the south west angle, and there are doorways in the third and sixth bay. The walls are chiefly of kentish rag, with caen stone dressings. The windows are pointed in the early english style, with plain chamfers; but internally they have a semicircular arch. The building had been sub-divided into pens for cattle but would have originally been one room 85 feet long by 34 feet wide'. It is likely that this would have been the location of the 'strangers hall' as the Benedictine monks who occupied the priory, were required by the rules of their order to provide accomodation for large numbers of pilgrims who used to pass through dover on their way to and from France. (1)
<1> Rev. F. C. Plumptre, 1861, Archaeologia Cantiana: Some account of the remains of the Priory of St. Martins and the church of St. Martin-Le-Grand, at Dover. Vol 4 (Article in serial). SKE31811.
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- <1> SKE31811 Article in serial: Rev. F. C. Plumptre. 1861. Archaeologia Cantiana: Some account of the remains of the Priory of St. Martins and the church of St. Martin-Le-Grand, at Dover. Vol 4. Vol. 4 pp. 1-26.
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Record last edited
Jul 18 2017 1:45PM