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East end of St Pancras's Chapel, St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury
The abbey complex of St Augustine, founded by the missionary outside Canterbury's city walls, contained three churches, of which this is the easternmost. The surviving sections, which clearly re-use brick from former Roman buildings, include the…
Footings of Wulfric's Rotunda, St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury
In about 1050 Wulfric, abbot of St Augustine's Abbey, decided to join the two early churches of SS Peter & Paul (the first on the site) and St Mary (built directly behind it on the same alignment), to create a single large church. To do this he…
Porticus of St Gregory, St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury
The foundations of the Porticus of St Gregory, the chapel along the north wall of the church of SS Peter & Paul at St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, and the place where the early archbishops of Canterbury were buried. Now several feet below ground…
Grave marker of Justus
Marker showing the original position of the grave of Justus (d.634, 1st Bishop of Rochester and 4th Archbishop of Canterbury), in the Porticus of St Gregory, the chapel along the north wall of the church of SS Peter & Paul at St Augustine's Abbey,…
Grave marker of Laurence
Marker showing the original position of the grave of Laurence (d.619, 2nd Archbishop of Canterbury), in the Porticus of St Gregory, the chapel along the north wall of the church of SS Peter & Paul at St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury.
Grave marker of Mellitus
Marker showing the original position of the grave of Mellitus (d.624, 1st Bishop of London and 3rd Archbishop of Canterbury), in the Porticus of St Gregory, the chapel along the north wall of the church of SS Peter & Paul at St Augustine's Abbey,…
Grave marker of Augustine
Marker showing the original position of the grave of St Augustine (d.605, 1st Archbishop of Canterbury). It would have been near the altar in the church of SS Peter & Paul at St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury. The tomb was destroyed when the Normans…
Grave marker of Theodore
Marker showing the original position of the grave of Theodore of Tarsus (d.690, 8th Archbishop of Canterbury). It would have been near the altar in the church of SS Peter & Paul at St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury.
Locations of grave markers of Theodore and Augustine
The marker at bottom centre shows the position of Theodore's grave in the nave of the church of SS Peter & Paul at St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury; that at the middle right shows the position of Augustine's grave. The Porticus of St Gregory, where…
Grave marker of King Eadbald
While the archbishops of Canterbury were buried in the church of SS Peter & Paul at St Augustine's Abbey, the kings of Kent were buried in the smaller church of St Mary, built in a line behind it. This marker shows the position of the grave of King…