Langdon Abbey

Langdon Abbey
Carved stone corbel, part of the remains of the monastic cellars at Langdon Abbey
Monastery information
OrderPremonstratensian
Establishedcirca 1192
Disestablished1535
Dedicated tothe Blessed Virgin Mary and St Thomas the Martyr
People
Founder(s)Sir William de Auberville
Important associated figuresEdward II
Site
LocationWest Langdon, Kent, England
Visible remainsMonastic cellars and 17th-century ice house
Public accessNo

Langdon Abbey (grid reference TR329468) was a Premonstratensian abbey near West Langdon, Kent, founded in about 1192 and dissolved in 1535, reportedly the first religious house to be dissolved by Henry VIII. The visible remains of the abbey are now confined to the extensive cellaring below the 16th-century house that occupies its site and small remains of a 17th-century ice house.


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