The Christ Church Heritage A to Z

L is for Literature

Literature is powerful. It engages us, and it forces us think. Its authors deploy a wonderful range of conceits to conjure…

Q is for Queen Eleanor

Queen Eleanor of Provence (b. c. 1223 — d. 1291), the wife of Henry III, and one of England’s lesser-known medieval…

F is for Folklore and Faery

Canterbury is a city of contrasts; the sacred and profane rub up against each other, the pagan peers through…

T is for Tradescant

It is surprising how little we know about the gardens laid out by John Tradescant the elder at St Augustine’s Palace for…

K is for Knockers and Knobs

Rapping a knocker, or knocking with knuckles, has long been a necessary physical act if a visitor is to gain…

G is for Graffiti

“There can be no doubt that persons, old or young or middle-aged, who commemorate themselves by inscribing their names or…

M is for Mission, Moshueshue, McKenzie, and Majaliwa

Z is for Zyme

‘Zyme’ (ancient Greek for a ‘ferment’ or ‘leaven’) is a microscopic single-celled fungi, commonly known as ‘yeast’. The word is the…

U is for Undercroft

Canterbury Cathedral’s crypt or ‘Undercroft’ was designed and built to St Anselm’s instructions and begun around 1097. It is…