Wednesday 1 April 2020

Canterbury: Passing St. Dunstan's


Another shot from Canterbury last summer, passing St. Dunstan's church on the junction of Whitstable Road and London Road.

Used to pass St. Dunstan's every day while living on Whitstable Road in the early 2000s.

Of course, St. Dunstan's is famous for containing (or being said to contain) the head of St. Thomas More. Have just read that St. Thomas More's daughter, Margaret, recovered his head from a spike on London Bridge and took it back to the family tomb of her husband, William Roper, inside St. Dunstan's.

Have also just discovered that St. Dunstan was a late 10th century Archbishop of Canterbury, and that Henry II started his penitential pilgrimage for having St. Thomas Becket murdered by changing his clothing into sackcloth at St. Dunstan's church before walking down to Becket's tomb inside Canterbury Cathedral.

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