XYC258621 The West View of St. Austin\'s Abbey, in Canterbury, from \'A Collection of Engravings of Castles, Abbeys, etc. in England\', 1735 (engraving) by Buck, Nathaniel (fl.1727-53) and Samuel (1696-1779); 19.2x37.4 cm; Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, USA; (add.info.: St Augustine\'s abbey, marking the rebirth of Christianity in southern England, was founded shortly after AD 597 by Saint Augustine; Aethelberht, king of Kent allowed Augustine to found a monastery just outside the walls of Canterbury;Ethelbert; dedicated to St Peter and St Paul; 605 AD; 07th; 1538 the abbey fell to the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII and was dismantled over the next 15 years); English, out of copyright.