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The Isle of Thanet: Minster Church, 1873. Creator: Unknown.

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The Isle of Thanet [in Kent]: Minster Church, 1873. 'Dompneva was [the] first abbess [of St. Mary's Convent], succeeded by her daughter, St. Mildred, who was followed by Eadburga, the builder of a more stately pile. All the seventy nuns, with their abbess, were slain, in 1011, by the ferocious Danes, when the convent was utterly destroyed; but its site and endowments were afterwards possessed by the monks of St. Augustine. These monks erected the church dedicated to St. Mary, which is a handsome building - the nave Norman, the chancel and transept Early English, with eighteen collegiate stalls in the chancel. It contains two large altar-tombs of black marble, richly decorated with fantastic sculpture; also the tomb of Edila de Thorne, stripped of its brass, and the bible-pew, where a copy of the sacred book was chained to the desk'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM25A13_159

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10,3Mo (726,6Ko) / 14,5cm x 17,8cm / 1715 x 2105 (300dpi)

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