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Description: | Canterbury cathedral was rebuilt in the Romanesque style by its Norman archbishop, Lanfranc. It was the premier ecclesiastical seat in England and a major pilgrimage shrine. The cathedral was richly decorated throughout the centuries. In her posthumous travelogue 'Through England on a Side Saddle' (1888), Celia Fiennes called the Cathedral of Canterbury ''the finest site there''. Daniel Defoe described it as ''a noble pile of a building indeed, and looks venerable and majestic at a distance, as well as when we come nearer''. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Publisher: | Buckler, J | Rights holder: | British Library | Subjects: | Christianity Sacred Architecture Cathedrals Monasteries Architecture Faith and Religion People And Society | Source: | Collect Britain | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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