St Augustine's Abbey
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St Augustine's Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Canterbury, Kent, England. The abbey was founded in 598 and functioned as a monastery until its dissolution in 1538 during the English Reformation.
Abbot Fyndon's Great Gate, with Lady Wootton's Green in the foreground, is a private entrance into the King’s School. The public entrance to the abbey ruins is on Longport.
King Æthelbert's statue
Queen Bertha's statue
St Augustine's College chapel
Augustine of Canterbury
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Augustine of Canterbury was a Christian monk who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597. He was the prior of a Benedictine monastery in Rome when Pope Gregory I chose him in 595 to
St Augustine's Abbey
…St Augustine's Abbey (founded as the Monastery of Ss Peter and Paul and changed after its founder St Augustine of Canterbury's death) was a Benedictine monastery in Canterbury, Kent, England. The abbey was founded in 598 and functioned as a monastery until its dissolution in…
Portrait labelled "AUGUSTINUS" from the mid-8th-century Saint Petersburg Bede, though perhaps intended as Gregory the Great.
Æthelberht of Kent imagined in a statue at Canterbury Cathedral
Augustine's gravesite at Canterbury