Folkestone Priory
Kent, England , originally a monastery of Benedictine nuns, founded in 630 by Saint Eanswith, grand-daughter of Saint Ethelbert, first Christian king in England . Destroyed by the Danes , a monastery of Benedictine monks was erected on the same site. Removed from the sea coast to the site of the present church of Folkestone, 1137 , it continued to the time of the dissolution, 1535 . Of the monastic buildings, a Norman doorway remains.