13 Facts About Canterbury Cathedral

Eitherway, Canterbury Cathedral was therefore a relative late-comer to English Christianity.

Canterbury Cathedral was sent by Pope Gregory I in 596 as a missionary to the English.

Canterbury Cathedral was destroyed by fire in 1067, a year after the Norman Conquest.

Canterbury Cathedral cleared the ruins and reconstructed the cathedral to a design based closely on that of the Abbey of Saint-Etienne in Caen, where he had previously been abbot, using stone brought from France.

Canterbury Cathedral was seriously damaged by the 1382 Dover Straits earthquake, losing its bells and campanile.

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Canterbury Cathedral ceased to be an abbey during the Dissolution of the Monasteries when all religious houses were suppressed.

Canterbury Cathedral is the Regimental Church of the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment.

Much of the stonework at Canterbury Cathedral is damaged and crumbling, the roofs are leaking and much of the stained glass is badly corroded.

Canterbury Cathedral uses "Vice Dean" not of one particular appointee, but to refer to the Canon in Residence for each month.

Canterbury Cathedral receives no government or state funding and only occasional grants from English Heritage.

Organ at Canterbury Cathedral is of four manuals and is in both south and the north quire aisles, as well as a nave division.

Organists and assistant organists at Canterbury Cathedral have included composers Clement Charlton Palmer, Gerald Hocken Knight and Philip Moore and musical directors Allan Wicks and Stephen Darlington.

Girls' Choir of Canterbury Cathedral was founded in 2014 and their first performance at Evensong, in January, was attended by more than 600 people and widely covered by the international press.