St Mary's Church, Reculver
Ruins · United Kingdom
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 601
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 51.380, 1.200
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: St Mary's Church, Reculver, was founded in the 7th century as either a minster or a monastery on the site of Regulbium, the Roman fort at Reculver, which was then at the north-eastern extremity of Kent in south-eastern England.
History
St Mary's Church, Reculver, was founded in the 7th century as either a minster or a monastery on the site of Regulbium, the Roman fort at Reculver, which was then at the north-eastern extremity of Kent in south-eastern England. In 669, the site of the fort was given for this purpose by King Ecgberht of Kent to a priest named Bassa, beginning a connection with Kentish kings that led to King Eadberht II of Kent being buried there in the 760s, and the church becoming very wealthy by the beginning of the 9th century. From the early 9th century to the 11th the church was treated as essentially a piece of property, with control passing between kings of Mercia, Wessex and England and the archbishops of Canterbury.