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Substantial ruinsruined, but plenty survives above ground
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Augustine founded this Benedictine house in AD 598, the first monastery in Anglo-Saxon England, and the early archbishops and the kings of Kent were buried in it. Henry VIII pulled it down and built a royal palace on part of the site, so what you walk round now is footings and low walls, with the plan of a very large church laid out in mown grass. The little ruined chapel of St Pancras sits at the far end. English Heritage run it with a museum and charge admission; Canterbury Castle is a mile west.
More at the National Heritage List entry
