The Royal Museum and Art Gallery, known locally as the Beaney Institute or The Beaney, is the central museum, library and art gallery in Canterbury. Designed by architect and City surveyor A.H. Campbell in 1897 and opened on 11 September 1899.
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The Thomas Ingoldsby is a Wetherspoon pub in Canterbury, Kent. Our pub offers a range of real ales, craft beers and freshly ground Lavazza coffee. Breakfast is served until noon, with our full food menu available until 11 pm. Read more…
The Weavers is one of the most famous and most photographed of Canterbury’s buildings. It was built, so all the books say, in 1500, and was intended to house the Flemish and Hugenot weavers who had fled France to flee religious persecution. Read more…
Canterbury Cathedral is one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England and forms part of a World Heritage Site. In 597AD St Augustine established his seat (or ‘Cathedra’) in Canterbury after being sent by Pope Gregory the Great as a missionary. In 1170 Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered in the Cathedral and ever since, the Cathedral has Read more…
The Westgate is a medieval gatehouse in Canterbury. A 60ft high western gate of the city wall is the largest surviving city gate in England. Built of Kentish ragstone around 1379, it is the last survivor of Canterbury’s seven medieval gates, still well-preserved. Grade I listed building houses the hundred-year-old West Gate Towers Museum, access to the museum and roof Read more…
St Augustine’s Abbey situated outside the city walls was founded shortly after AD 597 by St Augustine. Originally created as a burial place for the Anglo-Saxon kings of Kent, it is part of the Canterbury World Heritage Site, along with the cathedral and St Martin’s Church. Read more…
