MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE

• Abbey of Benedictine monks
• Also the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury
• Site of important Anglo-Saxon church that has recently been excavated
• Nave and transepts rebuilt by Archbishop Lanfranc (1070-89)
• Choir finished under his successors, Ernulph and Canrad
• Archbiship Thomas Beckett murdered here in 1070
• Choir destroyed by fire in 1174-rebuilt 1176-84
• Became major English pilgrimage site
• Nave and east transept rebuilt in Perpendicular Gothic style ca. 1365-1400

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