The Hospital of St Thomas, Canterbury
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This article isn't based on text from Edward Hasted's survey of Kent c. 1800.
This institution survived the general suppression of monasteries and buildings of its cast, during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI; and after alternately grading from the possession of private families to that of brothers belonging to the establishment, it was at last finally appropriated to the instruction of the rising generation, whose parents are exempt from giving any gratuity to the preceptor of their children.
Its present appearance is ancient, but not possessing any of those magic features which render the mansions of our majores so grand and magnificently solemn; a hall and chapel of imposing neatness and simplicity are still in good condition, but several of the apartments are dilapidated in part, and during a wet season admit the aqueous fluid through the chinks and fissures of their venerable walls.
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