Kent Map of trip
16th June 2015 Photos by Hetty
We spent the day walking around Canterbury, but we didn’t go into the Cathedral
This tower remains from St George’s church
This tower is all that remains of the medieval church of St Mary Magdalene. In the base is a Baroque memorial (1680)
The Cathedral from Butchery Lane
Old Weavers Houses by River Stour
14th century Westgate Towers were part of the town walls
The guildhall
Westgate Gardens
200-year-old Oriental plane tree
Tower House is used as the Lord Mayor’s office and for official functions
The Beaney Institute, 1897 – art gallery, museum and library
We followed Queen Bertha’s Walk from Canterbury Cathedral to St Martin’s Church, via St Augustine’s Abbey
The Buttermarket
Burgate is a medieval street
The City Walls were originally Roman, then Saxon. They were rebuilt in the 14th and 15th centuries, with D shaped bastions
Lady Wootton’s Green, in front of 14th century Fyndon’s Gate – which was the entrance to St Augustine’s Abbey; now the entrance to Kings School
St Augustine’s Abbey (English Heritage) was a monastery until its dissolution in 1538
Augustine founded a cathedral within the city walls, and a new monastery outside the walls about 598. The abbey was more important than the cathedral, until the murder of St Thomas a Becket in 1170. Then pilgrims came to the cathedral to visit the shrine of the murdered archbishop, and it became very rich and was enlarged
Canterbury Cathedral
An unusual post box from the reign of Edward VII
St Martin’s Church has Roman origins and has been in continuous use since about 580
The bell tower is 14th century
Part of the wall on the right is 4th century Roman
This part was added in the 6th century
12th century font
View of Canterbury Cathedral from St Martin’s
17th century house
Look at the door!
On the city walls
Canterbury Castle
Dane John Mound is the site of a Norman Motte & Bailey castle
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