What Once Was - St Augustine's Abbey
For this project, I was asked to recreate a building that no longer exists. For this I chose a local building, that is full of history. The building is St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury, of which has had many iterations. The era I have chosen to focus on the late 10th- mid-eleventh version of the structure.
What Once Was - St Augustine's Abbey
The thing about visualising historical buildings I found was the untangling of the puzzle.
Starting in this case with the plans, as so many variations on this structure had already been built by the end of the 10th century, and worse still it continued to change many times after this!
Therefore, I began unpicking the various plans I had found for the area and began working from the clearest ones.
From this, I began looking for clues and information about architectural detailing. For which I found an illustration which I used alongside research and information I have received from a very helpful historian at English Heritage.
Further references and inspirations are shown here:
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