St Edmund's Chapel

The St. Edmund 's Chapel is a church dedicated to St. Edmund in Dover. It was completed in 1262 as a wayside chapel or chapel of rest the arm at the Maison Dieu cemetery just outside the enclosed medieval town district, just above the Biggin Gate, among others, for the pilgrims to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. The cemetery was established by the monks of the Priory Dover.

The building is over 9 meters long, almost 5 feet wide and consists of two foot thick rough stones, decorated and complemented with Caen stone.

Your consecration took place on Laetare Sunday on March 30, 1253 by Bishop Richard of Chichester, who reached on a journey through the south of England Canterbury to Dover, where he fell ill and descent in the Maison Dieu. He held in the chapel, a sermon in which he mentioned that he still wanted to consecrate the church in honor of St. Edmund before his death. So this church is the only church that was consecrated by an English saint in the name of another English saint.

Richard The following morning broke Chichester together during the celebration and was taken to the Maison Dieu, where he died on April 3. His internal organs were spent in accordance with his wishes in the altar of the chapel, while his body was prepared for transfer to the Chichester Cathedral, where he wanted to be buried. As a result, the chapel was thus an independent pilgrim destination.

During the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the chapel, the Priory and the Maison Dieu in 1544 have been resolved. The chapel was storage space for the British Navy and was later storeroom built in Biggin Street shops.

In the mid-19th century it was converted into a two story building and became a residential and crafts building. Destroyed in 1943 artillery attacks of the German long-range guns across the channel between the two business buildings that covered the chapel to the Priory Road, the Chapel beliessen but undamaged. Tried to leave the chapel in 1963 categorized as Scheduled Ancient Monument failed and the chapel was to be demolished. Through the efforts of a local Catholic priest in 1965 they acquired private. 1967 saw a year-long restoration, during which consciously medieval building methods were applied, so that approximately 75 percent of the current building are original. In 1968, the chapel was rededicated. During the restoration of a four-day intensive archaeological survey of the property was made by Brian Philip. It is today at an ecumenical chapel, which was opened some time regularly. Today it is open less often. The church is run by the St. Edmund of Abingdon Memorial Trust. It is used for Saturday morning conducted Eucharistic celebrations, vigils and prayer candles at the holidays of St. Edmund and St. Richard, and is now less regularly open to the public.