The Museum of Canterbury in Kent, England


This Fine building dates from the 13th century. Around 1220, Alexander de Gloucester converted the original stone house into an almshouse, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, for looking after poor or elderly priests. It now house the museum of Canterbury and the Rupert Bear Museum


Size: 3744px × 5616px
Photo credit: © johnrochaphoto/England / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1200-1299, 1200s, 13th, age, almshouse, almshouses, bear, bears, c13, c13th, canterbury, century, clock, clocks, england, garden, gardening, gardens, gate, gates, holy, holyman, holymen, home, homes, house, houses, housing, kent, man, mediaeval, medieval, men, museum, museums, pebble, pebbles, poor, poverty, priest, priests, rock, rocks, rugged, rupert, solid, stone, stones, thirteenth, timekeeper, timepiece, vertical