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Latitude: 51.4223 / 51°25'20"N
Longitude: 0.8114 / 0°48'41"E
OS Eastings: 595565
OS Northings: 172999
OS Grid: TQ955729
Mapcode National: GBR RSB.MZP
Mapcode Global: VHKJ8.0JT1
Plus Code: 9F32CRC6+WH
Entry Name: The Abbey Gatehouse
Listing Date: 14 May 1952
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1258332
English Heritage Legacy ID: 444802
ID on this website: 101258332
Location: Minster, Swale, Kent, ME12
County: Kent
District: Swale
Civil Parish: Minster-on-Sea
Built-Up Area: Minster (Swale)
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Tagged with: Gatehouse
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
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