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= = =​ Canterbury Cathedral Kent, England =

//Nikki Sullivan //
**History** 597 AD Pope Gregory orders Augustine to go to England to convert the British people to Christianity 602 AD Saint Augustine founds the Canterbury Cathedral and dedicates it to St. Saviour. (Around) 740 AD a second building, either a baptistery or mausoleum was built by Archbishop Cuthbert and dedicated to St. John the Baptist 909 AD a Benedictine abbey named Christ Church Priory was added to the cathedral 941 AD St. Oda renewed the building and lengthened the nave 1011 AD the Saxon cathedral was damaged during Danish raids on Canterbury and Lyfing and Aethelnoth added a western apse as an oratory of St. Mary 1070 AD Lanfranc became the first Norman archbishop and he rebuilt the ruined Saxon cathedral in a Norman design Tuesday, December 29th 1170 AD was the murder of Thomas Becket in the north-east transept by the knights of King Henry II. The king and Becket always had conflicts and apparently the king said, "What sluggards, what cowards have I brought up in my court, who care nothing for their allegiance to their lord. Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest." and the knights took the comment literally and killed Becket in his own cathedral 1174 AD a fire destroyed the entire eastern end and William of Sens rebuilt the choir with early English Gothic design: high pointed arches, flying buttresses, and rib vaulting. 1390 AD Prior Thomas Chillenden rebuilt the nave in the Perpendicular style of English Gothic but left the Norman and Early English east end in place

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Canterbury Cathedral bells.


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Canterbury Cathedral views at different times of the day.

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