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The plan of the Abbey Church of the Benedictine nunnery of Saint Mary, West Malling, Kent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

F. C. Elliston-Erwood
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The Benedictine Nunnery at Mailing, Kent, was founded by Bishop Gundulf of Rochester (1076-1107) c. 1090, and though there appears to be some evidence of a pre-conquest foundation here, it is to Gundulf that the medieval nunnery owes its origin, and much of the walling still remaining can confidently be ascribed to his period. Of particular interest is the eastern processional doorway (pl. xivb) constructed entirely in calcareous tufa and probably the earliest doorway of its kind in the country.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 34 , Issue 1-2 , January 1954 , pp. 55 - 63
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1964

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page 55 note 1 The Cathedral Church and Monastery of S. Andrew, Rochester, p. 7.

page 55 note 2 Ibid., p. 10.

page 55 note 3 Ibid., p. 21.

page 55 note 4 Arch. Journ. lxxxvi, 187-212.

page 55note 5 Archaeologia, xlix (1884)Google Scholar and Arch. Cant, xxiii and xxiv (1898-1899)Google Scholar.

page 56 note 1 English Romanesque Architecture, ii, 24.

page 56 note 2 Arch. Journ. lxxxvi, 187 ff.

page 56 note 3 Arch, Journ. lxxxviii (1931).

page 60 note 1 Clapham, Eng. Rom. Arch., p. 15; Jean Virey, L'Église S. Philibert de Tournous, passim.

page 60 note 2 L'architecture religieuse en France à l'époque romane, p. 155.

page 60 note 3 Clapham, op. cit., p. 112.

page 62 note 1 Op. cit., p. 186.

page 62 note 2 H.M.O.W. Guide, p. 16 (1917)

page 63 note 1 These cracks have now (1953) disappeared, A thorough repair of the west front of this tower has recently taken place and these (and others) have been filled.