Place - in date
order
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Period of building
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Comments
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PRE 1000 |
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Saint Martin's Church |
From
597AD, but with even earlier (Roman) brickwork |
A
wonderful church - the oldest church in England still in use |
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11TH CENTURY |
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Saint
John Baptist Hospital, Northgate
St. Johns
Hospital - details
|
11th
Century, 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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12TH CENTURY |
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Cogan House |
Originally
12th century, with wonderful carvings |
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Eastbridge Hospital |
12th
century hospital for pilgrims |
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13TH CENTURY |
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Blackfriars |
13th
century |
Remains
of the old friary built on an island in the river |
Palace Street, 8 |
13th
century, with later additions |
Unusual
demons and decoration |
14TH CENTURY |
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Fyndon's Gate |
1301 |
The
Graet Gate of St. Augustine's Abbey |
Ivy Lane |
late
14th century |
Old
Wealden Hall House |
15TH CENTURY |
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Saint Radigund's Hall - Simple
Simon's pub |
15th
century |
Old
Wealden Hall House, now a pub |
67 Burgate |
15th-16th
century |
Lots
of wood carvings |
16th CENTURY |
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Weavers,
1-3 St. Peter's Street |
1500 |
Famous old house of the weavers, immigrant
refugees. Interior and exterior photos. |
43 St.
Peter's Street |
pre- 1600 |
Nice original windows |
17TH CENTURY |
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Westgate Grove |
1500s
- 1600s |
A
beautiful group of 16th and 17th century houses by the West gate of the
city. |
13 St.
Peter's Street
|
Around
1600 |
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Palace Street, 28 - King's
School shop |
1617 |
Leaning
dangerously! Beautiful carvings |
16 Watling Street |
1625 |
Oldest
brick building remaining in Canterbury |
Longport - John Smith's Almshouses |
1657 |
Almshouses
for poor folk with beautiful Dutch gables |
Best Lane 7-8 |
1600s |
Modest
townhouse with fine features |
17 Palace Street
Conquest House |
mid
1650s ??? |
Where
the knights who killed Thomas a Becket are supposed to have met to plan. |
18TH CENTURY |
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Union Street - King William pub |
1700-1750? |
Pub |
12, The Friars |
mid
1700s? |
Canterbury
Tales pub |
Monastery Street |
Around
1790 |
Example
of mathematical tiles on first floor |
1 Lady Wootton's Green |
18th
Century front |
Beautful
Adam style doorway and details |
19TH CENTURY |
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Saint Peter's Methodist Church
|
1811 |
Beautifully
symmetrical church - includes history of Methodist chapels in Canterbury |
Havelock Street |
late
1800's |
Small
Victorian terrace |
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late 1800's/ early 1900's
|
Victorian style two-up,
two-down
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20TH CENTURY |
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Union Street |
modern |
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