Augustine Abbey

The Architectural Journey of the Monastery

AD 597 – 1538

Special thanks to English Heritage, ATACAMA, and Aerial Media

🕰️ AD 596 – Augustine arrives in Canterbury to preach to the Anglo-Saxons and establishes a monastery 🏰

🕰️ AD 669–709 – Augustine worships at Queen Bertha’s chapel of St Martin 🙏

Here he founds a monastery dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul 🏛️

The monastery quickly flourishes, becoming a centre of learning and spiritual life 📚

🕰️ AD 669–709 – St Hadrian, from North Africa, serves as abbot 🌍

The monastery boasts some of the finest monastic buildings in Europe 👌

🕰️ AD 978 – The monastery is rededicated to St Augustine 🕍

🕰️ AD 1066 – Following the Norman Conquest, the church is rebuilt on a grand scale 🏰

🕰️ AD 1100–1500 – The monastery thrives, with many buildings extended and richly decorated 🌟

🕰️ AD 1387–1400 – Geoffrey Chaucer composes The Canterbury Tales 📖

🕰️ AD 1500 – The monastery reaches its final period of splendour ✨

🕰️ AD 1538 – King Henry VIII dissolves the monastery.

Most of the complex soon falls into ruin 🏚️

🕰️ AD 2023 – A new CGI virtual reconstruction is commissioned by English Heritage, bringing the monastery’s story back to life in a striking visual experience 🏗️

3D Modelling