Canterbury Cathedral ( Canterbury Cathedral ) - Gothic Cathedral in Canterbury . The official name is the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Christ at Canterbury ( Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Christ at Canterbury ). This is the main Anglican temple of Great Britain . Here is the chair of the Archbishop of Canterbury .
| Sight | |
| Canterbury Cathedral | |
|---|---|
 Cathedral on a postcard of the late XIX century | |
| A country |  Great Britain |
| Location | |
| Denomination | Anglicanism |
| Diocese | Canterbury Diocese |
| Architectural style | , and |
| Architect | and |
| Established | |
| Building | 1070 - 1834 years |
| Material | |
| Site | |
 World Heritage Site | |
| Canterbury Cathedral, St. Augustine's Abbey, and St. Martin's Church * (Cathedral, St. Augustine Monastery , and St. Martin Church in Canterbury) | |
| Link | No. 496 on the World Heritage List |
| Criteria | i, ii, vi |
| Region | Europe and North America |
| Turning on | 1988 ( 12th session ) |
Along with the nearby Abbey of St. Augustine and the Church of St. Martin, Canterbury Cathedral is a World Heritage Site .
History
According to the Honorable Honor , the cathedral was founded in 603 by the missionary of Pope Gregory the Great - Augustine of Canterbury . The foundations of the building he laid down were discovered by archaeologists in 1993. The temple was originally dedicated to Christ the Savior . In the middle of the eighth century Cuthbert attached a baptistery to the cathedral.
After the Norman conquest, the dilapidated church was rebuilt by Archbishop Lanfranc in the spirit of the Norman Romanesque . Anselm of Canterbury raised the construction to a new level, as evidenced by the extant and very extensive crypt .
In 1174, the cathedral burned down. During restoration, the Trinity Chapel , grandiose in those days, was added to the church, into which the relics of the Archbishop Thomas Becket, who was killed in the cathedral, were transferred. Since then, the cathedral has become the shrine of this martyr, annually attracting thousands of pilgrims who served as the pillar of his well-being (for the pilgrims, see " Canterbury Tales ").
In the XV century, the nave acquired a look close to modern (“ perpendicular gothic ”); the central tower was significantly built up. The northwestern tower in the Romanesque style in the 18th century threatened collapse and was dismantled; in the 1830s a new structure was built in its place, stylized in the spirit of “perpendicular” Gothic.
Around the Canterbury Cathedral there are two cloisters , a monastery garden and numerous utility rooms of various times of construction. When St. Dunstan (X century) the parish of the cathedral was reorganized into a Benedictine abbey , which was secularized under Henry VIII , in 1539, the last in England. Part of the outbuildings was destroyed in March 1942 during the Luftwaffe raid , the purpose of which was the cathedral itself.
Notes
- ↑ archINFORM - 1994.