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Canterbury Cathedral Canterbury Cathedral, the ecclesiastical centre of England, has a tradition of visitor welcome that reaches back to the days of medieval pilgrimages. The present cathedral was constructed between 1070 and 1180, with important additions dating from the 15th and 19th centuries. Canterbury was occupied by the Romans in the 1st century (among the Roman relics in Canterbury are the remains of the town walls), and in the late 6th century it became the capital of Ethelbert, King of Kent - the first Christian missionary to England. St. Augustine arrived here from Rome in 597, founded the abbey, and converted Ethelbert to Christianity. From the 8th to the 11th century it was raided periodically by the Danes, who burned the cathedral in 1011. Trinity Chapel also contains the site of the shrine of St.Thomas à Becket, who was murdered here in 1170. In World War II, the cathedral and surrounding buildings suffered damaged by German aerial bombing but they have since been repaired, and the dominating cathedral continues to be the seat of the Primate of the Church of England. Information Canterbury Cathedral |
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