St Mildred's Priory, Minster-in-Thanet | |
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Minster Abbey on a postcard (ca 1905) | |
Location within Kent | |
OS grid reference | TR313644 |
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District | |
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Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | RAMSGATE |
Postcode district | CT12 |
Police | Kent |
Fire | Kent |
Ambulance | South East Coast |
Minster Abbey is the name of two abbeys in Minster-in-Thanet, Kent, England. The first was a 7th-century foundation which lasted until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Beside its ruins is St Mildred's Priory, a Benedictine community of women founded in 1937.[2]