Milton Chantry

Milton Chantry is a ancient chantry chapel of Gravesend, Kent England. It houses the Chantry Heritage Centre, showing a thoroughness on well-known shows concerning to Gravesend, Northfleet, or the nearby villages. It is inside the Fort Gardens and is distinctive by European Heritage as a Grade II listed building. Milton Chantry is the oldest building within the Borough on Gravesham, between the erstwhile parish about Milton.

It was once built within 1322 by means of Aymer de Valence the Earl over Pembroke as a chantry chapel. Milton Chantry is whole as remains regarding the Hospital of St. Mary the Virgin leper hospital. The purpose about a chantry chapel used to be to address prayers because the souls about the dead. Many wealthy human beings shaped chantry chapels or gave to them land in accordance with give birth to an income, among kilter after maintain a shepherd according to ask for the proprietor yet his family.

The Milton Chantry housed a wide iety about priests trim by means of the Bishop of Rochester till round 1524. It was then dissolved between Crown hands as much quantity about Henry VIII's reformation of the churches. The building then became a household domestic after a not much alterations or farm, however by way of the give up about the 17^th century it had end up an lodge yet bar named New Tavern.