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Monument details

Summary

The site of a pre 15th century medieval chapel/chantry house used as a dwelling since the Reformation. Portions of the standing walls were pulled down in 1985. Foundations and possibly an infilled undercroft may survive beneath the cottage garden. There is also ditches believed to be propert boundary ditches present

Monument Types

• DITCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
• CHAPEL (Medieval - 1400 AD? to 1537 AD)
• HOUSE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1537 AD? to 1800 AD?)
• WASH HOUSE (Post Medieval - 1800 AD? to 1895 AD?)

Associated Finds

• SHERD (Medieval - 1350 AD to 1450 AD)

Full description

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[TR 37276533] Chapel [NR] (Rems. of) (NAT) (1) The Chantry Chapel of the Holy Trinity at St. Lawrence became a dwelling after the Reformation and gradually became a ruin. Windows remaining are 15th c. and the walls are earlier. (2) Part of the east wall is all that now remains of this chapel. It stands to a height of about 2.5m, is constructed of knapped flint and contains the lower half of a blocked window. (See GP/53/51). (3) TR 373654. This is the site of a medieval chapel/chantry house used as a dwelling since the Reformation. Portions of the standing walls were pulled down in 1985. Foundations and possibly an infilled undercroft may survive beneath the cottage garden. (4) Additional bibliography. (5)

In 2010 Canterbury Archaeological Trust carried out a watching brief on land to the west. A medieval boundary ditch was found, probably forming the boundary of the chapel land. (6-7) They also carried out an archaeological evaluation by 5 evaluation trenches. A narrow linear gully was excavated adjacent to th Chapel and is believed to represent the very base of the property boundary ditch. The recovery of pottery sherds datable to the period of 1350-1450AD suggest the chapel was of mid to late medival date. (8)

<1> OS 1/1250 1956 (OS Card Reference). SKE48115.

<2> Hist. of St. Lawrence 1895, 217-18 (C. Celton) (OS Card Reference). SKE44072.

<3> F1 AC 10-OCT-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE41787.

<4> Isle of Thanet Arch. Unit Sites and Mons. Archive 1988, Record No 282 (OS Card Reference). SKE44748.

<5> The History and Antiquities, Ecclesiastical and Civil of the Isle of Thanet in Kent, 1733 (J. Lewis) (OS Card Reference). SKE50358.

<6> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2011, An archaeological watching brief at Former Ellington Girls School, Ellington Place, St Lawrence, Ramsgate (Unpublished document). SKE25956.

<7> Field report for monument TR 36 NE 42 - October, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6183.

<8> Canterbury Archaeological Trust LTD, 2010, Archaeological Evaluation report, Former Ellington Girls School, Ellington Place, St Lawrence, Ramsgate. (Unpublished document). SKE31077.

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