Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Prior Selling's Gate, is the Tower gateway, a square shaped gatehouse about 30 feet by 30 feet in size with two large buttresses to the northern exterior, built by Prior Selling (1472-1494) during the 1470's as a gate with a new Prior's Study above. This gateway gave access to and from the Green Court and Infirmary, etc via the Prior's Entry, also called the Dark Entry, passage.

Monument Types

• GATE (Medieval to Unknown - 1472 AD?)

Full description

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Prior Selling's Gate, is the Tower gateway, a square shaped gatehouse about 30 feet by 30 feet in size with two large buttresses to the northern exterior, built by Prior Selling (1472-1494) during the 1470's as a gate with a new Prior's Study above. This gateway gave access to and from the Green Court and Infirmary, etc via the Prior's Entry, also called the Dark Entry, passage.

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

John Newman, 1969, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent (Monograph). SKE7874.

Collinson, P., Ramsey, N. & Sparks, M., 1995, A History of Canterbury Cathedral (Monograph). SKE30201.

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

Sources and further reading