Monument Number 464642 |
Hob Uid: 464642 | |
Location : Kent Canterbury Non Civil Parish
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Grid Ref : TR1553057840 |
Summary : Reredorter or common latrine at St Augustine's Abbey, constructed after 1099. No part of this building is visible today. William Stukely shows fragments of its lower walls in a drawing of 1722. Its dimensions are given in documentary sources as 193 feet long by 24 feet wide. |
More information : The reredorter or common latrine of St Augustine's Abbey was a vast building, 193 x 24ft, standing at right angles to the north end of the dormitory. No remains of it have yet been found. (1) Reredorter, built c1099-1124. (2) (TR 15535784 - conjectural plan). (3)
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