The Chapel of St. Pancras in St. Augustine’s Monastery, Canterburydetails

The ruins of this little oratory stand near the south-easternmost part of the Abbey-close. It is commonly supposed to be of great antiquity, but this opinion is controverted by Somner, who gives very good reason for his doubts.

“The next thing (says he) is the chapel of St. pancrace, built (as the private chroniclers make report) before Augustine came, and used by the king, before his conversion to Christianity, for the place of his idol-worship; but after it, the first that Augusting, after he had purged it from the worship of the false, consecrated to the service of the true God, and dedicated to St. Pancrace: wherewith the Devil, all enraged, and not brooking his

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