nfirmary 38
The Baptistery Tower 39
Turret of South-West Transept 41
The Cloisters 43
Norman Staircase in the Close 45
Details of the Norman Staircase in the Close 46
Details of Ornament 47
Old Painting, "The Murder of St. Thomas a Becket" 51
The Shrine of St. Thomas a Becket (from the Cottonian MS.) 52
Capitals of Columns in the Eastern Apse 54
The Choir--looking East 59
Do. before Restoration 62
A Miserere in the Choir 65
Some Mosaics from the Floor of Trinity Chapel 73
The Black Prince's Tomb 77
Shield, Coat, etc., of the Black Prince 80
West Gate 81
Trinity Chapel, looking into Corona, "Becket's Crown" 88
Chair of St. Augustine 89
Transept of "The Martyrdom" 92
Part of South-Western Transept 94
The Crypt 97
Do. St. Gabriel's Chapel 100
Do. Cardinal Morton's Monument 101
Plans of Cathedral at three periods 130

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[Illustration: THE CATHEDRAL FROM THE NORTH
(FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY CARL NORMAN AND CO.).]

CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL.

CHAPTER I.

THE HISTORY OF THE BUILDING.

More than four hundred years passed by between the beginning of the
building of this cathedral by Archbishop Lanfranc (1070-1089) and its
completion, by the addition of the great central tower, at the end of the
fifteenth century. But before tracing the history of the construction of
the present well-known fabric, a few words will not be out of place
concerning the church which preceded it on the same site. A British or
Roman church, said to have been built by a certain mythical King Lucius,
was given to St. Augustine by Ethelbert in A.D. 597. It was designed,
broadly speaking, on the plan of the old Basilica of St. Peter at Rome,
but as to the latest date of any alterations, w