into an apse. In time, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners made over the whole property to the College Trustees. The Strangers' Refectory was restored and an important but damaged fresco was found there. The gatehouse was restored in 1881, to mark a charitable act by Sir Richard Dickenson the then mayor of Dover. Famous alumni of Dover College include Simon Cowell, Air Marshal Sir Hugh Walmsley, Sir Frederick Ashton, J. Lee Thompson, Admiral Sir Peter White, George Lam, Michael Kuhn, Guy East, and Dai Fujikura. See also Maison Dieu, Dover - across Priory Road, founded in 1203 to provide hospitality to pilgrims St Edmund's Chapel - a wayside chapel on Priory Road, serving a cemetery set up by the Priory References Bibliography - has old engravings of the priory Further reading Includes photograph of the interior of the chapel (former guesten house). This is an introduction to the library catalogue of the Benedictine priory of St Martin at Dover, compiled by the precentor, John Whytefield, in 1389. External links Website of Dover Museum Picture of Priory Building Monasteries in Kent Augustinian monasteries in England Benedictine monasteries in England Monasteries dissolved under the English Reformation History of Dover, Kent Buildings and structures in Dover, Kent 1130 establishments in England 1538 disestablishments in England Christian monasteries established in the 12th century Former Royal Peculiars