Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church
Canterbury, in Kent, has been the seat of the
spiritual head of the Church of England for nearly five centuries.
Canterbury's other important monuments are the modest Church of St
Martin, the oldest church in England; the ruins of the Abbey of St
Augustine, a reminder of the saint's evangelizing role in the Heptarchy
from 597; and Christ Church Cathedral, a breathtaking mixture of
Romanesque and Perpendicular Gothic, where Archbishop Thomas Becket was
murdered in 1170.