Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

The Pentice appears to have been a covered walkway, about 70 feet long E-W by about 10 feet wide N-S, running along the north side of a range of chambers allowing protected from the elements access to and from the Meister Omer's complex and the main Priory buildings and the Cathedral.

Monument Types

• COVERED WAY (Medieval to Unknown - 1391 AD?)

Full description

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The Pentice, Meister Omer's Complex. Little has been found out about this structure so far. Meister Omer's is a series of buildings divided amongst the three Prebenaries of the fifth, sixth, and eleventh stalls, that lay to the east of the Infirmary complex. The Meister Omer's is believed to have been largely built by Prior Thomas Chillenden between 1391 and 1411. The Pentice appears to have been a covered walkway, about 70 feet long E-W by about 10 feet wide N-S, running along the north side of a range of chambers allowing protected from the elements access to and from the Meister Omer's complex and the main Priory buildings and the Cathedral. It would seem to have been demolished at the Dissolution as it does not appear on Willis's plan (Plate 3) showing surviving buildings during the reign of Elizabeth I.

Willis, R., 1868, 'The Architectural History of the Conventual Buildings of the Monastery of Christchurch in Canterbury' (Article in serial). SKE30206.

Blockley, K., Sparks, M. & Tatton-Brown, T., 1997, Canterbury Cathedral Nave, Archaeology, History and Architecture (Monograph). SKE29723.

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