Description

TQ 97 SE 13/167
5282

HIGH STREET (North Side)
Minster-on-Sea, Sheerness
The Abbey Gatehouse

14.5.52.

GV I

This gatehouse and the Abbey Church are the only remaining portions of Minster
Abbey. C13. 3 storeys. 2 windows facing south, 1 window facing east. Stone
and flints. Stringcourses. Castellated parapet of chequer work of stone and
knapped flints. Modern casement windows, those on the south front on the 2nd
floor being placed in mediaeval openings with 4-centred heads. 1 cinquefoil-
headed lancet on the 2nd floor of the east front. Pointed carriage archway
in the south-west corner, pointed pedestrian arch to the east of it. 3 cinquefoil-
headed lancet windows on the north front with a chimney corbelled out between
2 of them on the 2nd floor. Pointed carriage archway on this side as wide
as both the carriage and pedestrian archways of the south front together.
Square projection in the north-east corner with pointed lancet windows.

Listing NGR: TQ9555272937

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17530093

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)