South East England
Kent
City of Canterbury

Canterbury Cathedral

Canterbury Cathedral is the cathedral of the archbishop of Canterbury, the spiritual leader of the Church of England and symbolic leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
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  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Anglican
  • Description: cathedral in Canterbury, Kent, England, founded in 597
  • Also known as: “Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Christ at Canterbury”
  • Address: Canterbury
  • Wheelchair access: yes
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St Augustine’s Abbey and Canterbury Roman Museum.

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St Augustine's Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in , Kent, England. The abbey was founded in 598 and functioned as a monastery until its dissolution in 1538 during the English Reformation. is situated 1,400 feet southeast of Canterbury Cathedral.

Museum
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The in , , houses a Roman pavement which is a scheduled monument, in the remains of a Roman courtyard house which itself is a grade I listed building. is situated 530 feet southwest of Canterbury Cathedral.

Church
at the east end of Canterbury Cathedral forms part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was built under the supervision of the master-masons William of Sens and William the Englishman as a shrine for the relics of the martyred Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Canterbury and Wincheap.

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is a cathedral and university city in , in the South East of . Cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of , Primate of All England and hence the Primus inter pares of the primates of each national church in the Anglican Communion and spiritual leader and senior clergyman of the Church of England.

Suburb
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is a road and suburb in , , England. The road forms part of the A28 road, stretching for around 1 mile from the city wall, close by , to the over-crossing of the A2 and the parish of .

Suburb
The residential area known as is part of the civil parish of , and lies to the north of the city of in , England. The residents include large numbers of students from the nearby University of Kent.

Canterbury Cathedral

Latitude
51.2798° or 51° 16′ 47″ north
Longitude
1.08286° or 1° 4′ 58″ east
Elevation
62 feet (19 metres)
Open location code
9F3373HM+W4
Open­Street­Map ID
way 28021345
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map attribute
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Open­Street­Map attribute
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Geo­Names ID
6619924
Wiki­data ID
Q29265
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Canterbury Cathedral” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كاتدرائية كانتربري”
  • Armenian: “Քենթերբերիի տաճար”
  • Asturian: “Catedral de Canterbury”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kenterberi kafedralı”
  • Basque: “Canterburyko katedrala”
  • Belarusian: “Кентэрберыйскі сабор”
  • Bulgarian: “Кентърбъри”
  • Bulgarian: “Кентърбърийска катедрала”
  • Catalan: “catedral de Canterbury”
  • Catalan: “Catedral de Canterbury”
  • Chinese: “坎特伯里大教堂”
  • Chinese: “坎特伯里座堂”
  • Chinese: “坎特伯雷主教座堂”
  • Chinese: “坎特伯雷大教堂”
  • Chinese: “坎特伯雷座堂”
  • Chinese: “坎特布雷大教堂”
  • Chinese: “坎特柏立座堂”
  • Chinese: “根德伯里座堂”
  • Croatian: “Canterburyska katedrala”
  • Croatian: “Katedrala u Canterburyju”
  • Czech: “Canterburská katedrála”
  • Czech: “Katedrála v Canterbury”
  • Danish: “Canterbury Cathedral”
  • Danish: “Canterbury Katedral”
  • Danish: “Canterburykatedralen”
  • Dutch: “Canterbury Cathedral”
  • Dutch: “Kathedraal van Canterbury”
  • Esperanto: “Katedralo de Canterbury”
  • Estonian: “Canterbury katedraal”
  • Finnish: “Canterburyn katedraali”
  • Finnish: “Canterburyn tuomiokirkko”
  • French: “cathédrale de Canterbury”
  • French: “Cathédrale de Canterbury”
  • Galician: “Catedral de Canterbury”
  • Georgian: “კენტერბერის კათედრალი”
  • German: “Canterbury Cathedral”
  • German: “Kathedrale von Canterbury”
  • Greek: “Καθεδρικός του Κάντερμπερι”
  • Hebrew: “קתדרלת קנטרברי”
  • Hindi: “कैंटरबरी कैथेड्रल”
  • Hungarian: “Canterbury katedrális”
  • Hungarian: “canterburyi katedrális”
  • Hungarian: “Canterburyi katedrális”
  • Indonesian: “Katedral Canterbury”
  • Interlingua: “Cathedral de Canterbury”
  • Irish: “Ardeaglais Canterbury”
  • Italian: “cattedrale di Canterbury”
  • Italian: “Cattedrale di Canterbury”
  • Japanese: “カンタベリー大聖堂、聖オーガスティン大修道院及び聖マーティン教会”
  • Japanese: “カンタベリー大聖堂”
  • Korean: “캔터베리 대성당”
  • Korean: “캔터베리 성당”
  • Latin: “Ecclesia cathedralis Cantuariensis”
  • Latin: “Ecclesia Cathedralis Cantuariensis”
  • Latvian: “Kenterberijas katedrāle”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Catedral de Canterbury”
  • Macedonian: “Кантербериска катедрала”
  • Malay: “Katedral Canterbury”
  • Maltese: “Katidral ta‘ Canterbury”
  • Maltese: “Katidral ta’ Canterbury”
  • Mingrelian: “კენტერბერიშ კათედრალი”
  • Narom: “Cathédrale de Cantorbéry”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Canterburykatedralen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Katedralen i Canterbury”
  • Norwegian: “Canterburykatedralen”
  • Persian: “کلیسای جامع کنتربری”
  • Polish: “Katedra Kanterberyjska”
  • Polish: “Katedra w Canterbury”
  • Portuguese: “Catedral da Cantuária”
  • Portuguese: “Catedral de Canterbury”
  • Portuguese: “Catedral de Cantuária”
  • Portuguese: “Igreja de Cristo”
  • Romanian: “Catedrala Canterbury”
  • Romanian: “Catedrala din Canterbury”
  • Russian: “Кентерберийский собор”
  • Russian: “Собор в Кентербери”
  • Serbian: “Кентерберијска катедрала”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Katedrala u Canterburyju”
  • Slovak: “Canterburská katedrála”
  • Slovenian: “canterburyjska stolnica”
  • Slovenian: “Canterburyjska stolnica”
  • Spanish: “Catedral de Canterbury”
  • Spanish: “Catedral de Cantorbery”
  • Swedish: “Canterbury Cathedral”
  • Swedish: “Canterburykatedralen”
  • Swedish: “Katedralen i Canterbury”
  • Tamil: “கேன்டர்பரி பேராலயம்”
  • Thai: “มหาวิหารแคนเทอร์เบอรี”
  • Thai: “อาสนวิหารแคนเทอร์เบอรี”
  • Thai: “อาสนวิหารและคริสตจักรมหานครของพระคริสต์ เมืองแคนเทอร์เบอร์รี”
  • Turkish: “Canterbury Katedrali”
  • Ukrainian: “Кентерберійський собор”
  • Urdu: “کینٹربری کیتھیڈرل”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhà thờ chính tòa Canterbury”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Canterbury Cathedral”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Katedral han Canterbury”
  • Welsh: “Eglwys Gadeiriol Caergaint”
  • Western Frisian: “Katedraal fan Canterbury”
  • Wu Chinese: “坎特伯雷大教堂”
  • Yue Chinese: “根德伯里座堂”

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