Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church World Heritage Site

Official name

Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church | UNESCO

Country

United Kingdom | Map

Continent

Europe

Location

County of Kent, England
51.2800° Lat, 1.8330° Lon | Map

Code

496

Time Zone

Europe/London (GMT, +0000)

Current Time

Category

Cultural

Description

Inscribed 1988. Canterbury, in Kent, has been the seat of the spiritual head of the Church of England for nearly five centuries. Canterbury's other important monuments are the modest Church of St Martin, the oldest church in England; the ruins of the Abbey of St Augustine, a reminder of the saint's evangelizing role in the Heptarchy from 597; and Christ Church Cathedral, a breathtaking mixture of Romanesque and Perpendicular Gothic, where Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered in 1170.