Minster-in-Thanet
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Minster, also known as Minster-in-Thanet, is a village and civil parish in the Thanet District of Kent, England. It is the site of Minster in Thanet Priory. The village is west of Ramsgate and to the
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Minster-in-Thanet
The smithy ca.1903, by Fred C. Palmer
Mildrith
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Saint Mildrith, also Mildthryth, Mildryth and Mildred,, was a 7th- and 8th-century Anglo-Saxon abbess of the Abbey at Minster-in-Thanet, Kent. She was declared a saint after her death, and, in 1030, h
Minster-in-Thanet
…AD. The buildings are still used as nunneries today. The first abbey in the village was founded by St Domneva, a widowed noblewoman, whose daughter St Mildred, is taken as the first abbess. The tradition is that Domneva was granted as much land as a hind could run over in a day, the hind remains the village…
St Mildred, Preston-next-Wingham, Kent
Bronze casket for St Mildred's relics in Minster Abbey, made (1955) by Sister Concordia Scott