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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 1  1858  page 169

Observations on the supposed site of Ancient Roman Maidstone.
 By Rev Beale Poste

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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