Faversham Abbey
About Faversham Abbey
Faversham Abbey became a Cluniac style monastery straight away to the north-east of the metropolis of Faversham, in Kent, England. It become based by using King Stephen and his spouse Matilda of Boulogne in 1148. A party of monks from Bermondsey Abbey furnished the nucleus and the primary abbot. At the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Sir Thomas Cheney assigned the abbey to Thomas Arden and it turned into considerably destroyed in 1538. Thereafter the web site of the abbey got here into the possession of the Sondes own family and now lies in the grounds of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School.
The Abbey became the burial location of King Stephen, Queen Matilda, and their eldest son, Eustace IV of Boulogne. Their bones were reportedly thrown into the nearby Faversham Creek while the abbey was demolished. Their empty tombs have been unearthed in 1964 near what were the center of the choir. However, there is a cover tomb with out a modern-day inscription inside the nearby Parish Church, wherein is said that their bones were re-interred.
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