Wanderings » Canterbury http://rebrennan.com/wanderings views along the way Thu, 05 Feb 2015 17:41:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 Live wires http://rebrennan.com/wanderings/live-wires/ http://rebrennan.com/wanderings/live-wires/#comments Sat, 09 Mar 2013 07:31:43 +0000 http://rebrennan.com/wanderings/?p=201 Pylons singing on a misty morning (with birdsong and my breathing).

]]> http://rebrennan.com/wanderings/live-wires/feed/ 0 Canterbury Cathedral http://rebrennan.com/wanderings/canterbury-cathedral/ http://rebrennan.com/wanderings/canterbury-cathedral/#comments Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:08:44 +0000 http://rebrennan.com/wanderings/?p=203 I’ve not visited Canterbury Cathedral before. It was quite as I expected: huge, impressive, with elegant columns. What I didn’t anticipate was how warm it was inside – very welcome on an extremely cold day.

Canterbury Cathedral exterior from the cloister

View of the Cathedral tower from the cloister.

Someone wanted to make the cloister cat warm and comfortable too but I don’t think it will be back until the builders have gone.

cat bed in the cloister

Bell tower and interior of the cathedral.

bell tower interior interior of Canterbury Cathedral

For centuries pilgrims came to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Thomas Becket, murdered in 1170. I like the way the site of the murder is marked today: a place for quiet contemplation.

Thomas Becket shrine

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