Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

On the north-west side of the Infrmary Hall is a long range of buildings set on a north-south axis, about 135 feet in length and about 32 feet in width, which were added in the 14th century. These appear to be the Infirmary Kitchen and related service buildings.

Monument Types

• BUILDING (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1309 AD? to 1546 AD?)
• KITCHEN (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1309 AD? to 1546 AD?)

Full description

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On the north-west side of the Infrmary Hall is a long range of buildings set on a north-south axis, about 135 feet in length and about 32 feet in width, which were added in the 14th century. These appear to be the Infirmary Kitchen and related service buildings, erected perhaps under the abbacy of Abbpot Ralph Bourne 1309-1334. The The long range appears to consist of a complex number of different sized rooms of various functions, with perhaps access into the Infirmary Hall at the south end. A large oven/fireplace like structure at the south end of the northern part of the range perhaps indicates that this may have been the Kitchen.

They appear to have been demolished soon after the Dissolution c. 1546.

Tatton-Brown, T., 1985, Three Great Benedictine Houses in Kent: Their Buildings & Topography (Article in serial). SKE8094.

Roebuck, J., 2002, St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury (Monograph). SKE30293.

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