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Place - in
alphabetical order by street name
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Period of building
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Comments
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All
Saints Church
(now gone)
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A
1780's print of the church which used to stand in the middle of town |
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Best
lane 7-8 |
17th
century |
Modest
townhouse |
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Blackfriars |
13th
Century |
Remains
of the old friary built on an island in the river |
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67 Burgate |
15th-16th
century house with many carvings |
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Canterbury Cathedral |
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See the pages for details! |
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Cogan House (now a
restaurant) |
Originally
12th century, with wonderful carvings |
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Eastbridge Hospital, or
St Thomas' Hospital |
Old Hospital for pilgrims,
12th century
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Wonderful
timber roof beams. |
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12,
The Friars |
18th
century brick building |
Canterbury
Tales pub opposite the Marlowe Theatre - nice example of overstepping
brickwork |
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Fyndon Gate |
1301 |
Great
gate to St. Augustine's Abbey with wonderful stone carvings |
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Havelock
Street |
late
1800's |
Small
Victorian terrace |
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Ivy
Lane |
late
14th century |
Old
Wealden Hall House |
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Lady Wootton's Green |
18th
century front |
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Longport - John Smith's Almshouses |
1657 |
Old
almshouses for poor folk, with beautiful Dutch gables |
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Monastery
Street |
Around
1790 |
Example
of mathematical tiles on first floor |
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Palace
Street, 8 |
13th
century, with later additions |
Unusual
demons and decoration |
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Palace Street, 17
Conquest House |
12th
century with many later additions |
Timber-framed
- where the knights who killed Thomas a Becket are supposed to have met
to plan. |
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Palace Street, 28 -
King's School shop |
1617 |
Leaning
dangerously! Beautiful carvings |
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Pretoria Road |
early
1900's |
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Saint John Baptist Hospital,
St. Johns
Hospital - details
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1100s,
with many later additions, particularly 16th century |
The oldest poorhouse (hospital) still in use in
England - founded 900 years ago.
Set of photos
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Saint Martin's Church |
From
597 - with even older, Roman brickwork |
The
oldest church in England in continuous use. |
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Saint Martin's Terrace |
early
1900's |
Built
for prison officers - example of mock Tudor gables |
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late 1800's/ early 1900's
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Victorian style two-up,
two-down
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St. Peter's Methodist Church
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Church
built in 1811 |
Beautifully
symetrical structure - includes history of Methodist chapels in
Canterbury |
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1-3
St. Peter's Street,
Weavers |
1500 |
Weavers' house by the river.
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13 St. Peter's Street |
Around
1600 |
Beautiful
carvings and eye-level windows |
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43 St. Peter's Street |
Around
1600, a little earlier |
Nice
original windows |
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Saint Radigund's Hall - Simple
Simon's pub |
15th
century |
Old
Wealden Hall House, now a pub |
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St
Thomas' Hospital, or Eastbridge
Hospital |
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Union
Street |
modern |
Block
of flats |
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Union Street - King William pub |
1700-1750? |
Pub |
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Walls |
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See
all the other old gates
as well |
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16
Watling Street |
1625 |
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Weavers, 1-3 St. Peter's Street |
1500 |
Weavers'
house by the river. |
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Westgate Tower |
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See
all the other old gates
as well |