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Monument details

Summary

During the later 15th century, c. 1470 a south and east range of chambers were added to the Meister Omers Complex.

Monument Types

• LODGINGS (C15-C17, Medieval to Unknown - 1470 AD?)

Full description

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During the later 15th century, c. 1470 a south and east range of chambers were added to the Meister Omers Complex. The south Range of chambers was rectangular shaped in plan measuring about 30 feet wide N-S by about 80 feet in length E-W, running west form the N-S range of chambers of the same date just north of the Meister Omers Hall, to the gate immediately east of the Infirmary Chapel. Probably these chambers were built over two storeys as those of the east range. On the north side was a covered Pentice walk which joined another of the same type on the west side of the east range of chambers.

At the Dissolution these chambers were allocated, according to the Distribution Document of 1546, to the Prebend of the Sixth Stall.

It seem that much of the building was demolished in the second half of the 17th century.

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

Driver, J. C., Rady, J., Sparks, M., 1990, Excavations in the Cathedral Precincts, 2 Linacre Garden, 'Meister Omers' and St Gabriel's Chapel. (Monograph). SKE29781.

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

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