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a church, named St. Mary's church, standing near to
the archbishop's palace, to the south. This must have
been subordinate to the church of St. Faith, which has
been removed in the present year (1858), and which
was situated towards the ancient site of the station and
"vicus" before described, though without their limits,
and which doubtless was the church of the place mentioned
in the Domesday survey of William the Conqueror.
Nearer still to the station and " vicus " was the
chapel of St. Anne, which, according to ' Inrolments' in
the Augmentation Office (cited by Hasted in his 'History
of Kent,' vol. ii., folio edition, p. 106), adjoined Perryfield,
and might have been in close proximity to the
"vicus;" but its exact site is not precisely known.1
Archbishop Courtney, however, completed the plan
which appears to have been entertained by his predecessors, of forming the town in its present site, by founding
and building a college, and a new and magnificent
church in this quarter, dedicated to All Saints. Both
these works seem to have been completed shortly after
his death, in or about the year 1400. There is also
great probability that he formed some of the buildings
in the High Street, as Leland, in his ' Itinerary,' vol. vi.
(continued from page 168) mentioned in several ancient documents. It was on the north bank of
the
Lenn, and on the east side of Stone Street, being about eighty
yards from
the present bridge called the Little Bridge. It had a field of two
acres
attached to it, called the " Chapel Croft," and the
whole site now belongs
to John Brenchley, Esq. Some remains of foundations and of
earthenware
water conduit-pipes were mentioned by Mr. Brenchley as having
been formerly met with between the street and the Chapel Croft. It
is
probable from this, that water was formerly conveyed in this
direction
from the spring near the end of the Mote road, at Wren's Cross.
1 How the two
chapels of St. John and St. Anne originated, does not
appear. The latter was situated, it seems, contiguous to lands
held by
Boxley Abbey in Maidstone parish, and might have been connected
with
that conventual establishment. The former might not improbably
have
been maintained by the archbishop. There is no indication that
either of
them had been abolished at the dissolution of the monasteries, nor
is it
known when they were discontinued.
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