All Saints' Church
Bertha the Queen
Canterbury Cathedral
Holy Cross
St Alphege
St Andrew's
St Dunstan's
St George's
St Gregory's
St Margaret's
St Martin's
St Mary Bredin
St Mary Bredman
St Mary Magdalene
St Mary Northgate
St Mildred's
St Paul's
St Peter's
St Stephen's
St Thomas' RC
Non-Conformist 1
Non-Conformist 2
Non-Conformist 3 | |
The Churches of Canterbury
A Note on the Churches of Canterbury
In Medieval times, Canterbury contained as
many as 22 Parishes, but the effects of Plague and other factors resulted in
several Parishes merging, and their Churches disappearing long before Parish
Register Records could survive. In this Survey, I have concentrated on the Churches,
current and closed, for which Parish Registers are held by the Cathedral Archives,
plus other religious Institutions still to be found in the City.
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To access the Churches, just click on the Links
on the left.
Click on the Thumbnail Pictures for an
Enlarged View. Please Note this may take some time to load with dial-up
connections.
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For the sake of completeness, the
long-vanished Churches are listed below.
St Edmund's Ridingate
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Beside and above the Ridingate
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St George's Church above Newingate
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St George's St
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St Helen's Church
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On site of 17 High St
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St John the Baptist (The Poor)
Church
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Marlowe Avenue
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St John's Hospital Church
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Northgate
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St Mary De Castro Church
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Castle Row
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St Mary Queningate Church
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Queningate
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St Mary's Church
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St Augustine's Abbey
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St Mary's Church above Worthgate
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Next to the Castle
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St Mary's Hospital Church
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Poor Priests' Hospital, Stour
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St Michael's Church
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Beside and above the Burgate
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St Pancras' Church
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St Augustine's Abbey
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St Peter and Paul's Church
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St Augustine's Abbey
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St Sepulchre's Church and Nunnery
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Old Dover Road
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St Thomas' Chapel
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Union St
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In addition, the following Monastic Institutions
were dissolved in the 16th Century.
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Augustinian Friary
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(Whitefriars)
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Christ Church Priory
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(Cathedral)
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Dominican Friary
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(Blackfriars)
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Franciscan Friary
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(Greyfriars)
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St Augustine's Abbey
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St Gregory's Priory
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The Burial Records of Canterbury City Cemetery 1877-1953,
are held at the Cathedral Archives.
Most of the colour photographs are the compiler's own, or
taken from the KFHS CD-ROM 09 "Kent Churches". The following sources
were used for the information in this list:
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Bateman, Audrey
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"Hail, Mother of England"
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1984
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Butler, Derek
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"Canterbury in Old Photographs"
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1989
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Butler, Derek
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"Canterbury Revisited"
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1997
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Butler, Derek
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"Century of Canterbury"
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2002
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"Canterbury 1905"
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1905, Reprinted 1997
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Cohn-Sherbok, Rabbi Dan
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"Jewish Canterbury"
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1992
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Crampton, Paul
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"Blitz of Canterbury"
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1989
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Crampton, Paul
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"Canterbury in Archive
Photographs"
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1997
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Crampton, Paul
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"Canterbury After the Blitz, 1942-45"
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1993
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Crampton, Paul
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"Canterbury Before the Blitz"
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1992
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Crampton, Paul
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"Canterbury in the 1940's"
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1995
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Crampton, Paul
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"Canterbury Then and Now"
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1991
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Crampton, Paul
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"Canterbury, 1945-1975"
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2002
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Crampton, Paul
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"Then and Now- Canterbury"
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1998
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Crouch, Marcus
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"Canterbury"
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1970
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Green, Ivan
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"Canterbury, a Pictorial History"
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1988
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Harmsworth, Andy
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"Journey to Medieval Canterbury"
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2001
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Lyle, Marjorie
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"English Heritage- Canterbury"
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1992
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Major, Alan
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"Who's Buried Where in Kent"
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1990
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Maltby, Richard
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"Canterbury (Pevensey Guide)"
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1993
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Oaten Hill Society
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"Nunnery Fields Remembered"
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1998
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Pope, Anne
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"Memories of the Blitz"
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1992
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Rootes, Andrew
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"Images of Canterbury"
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1997
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Wacher, Harold
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"Medical History of Canterbury"
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1994
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Wright, David
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"East Kent Parishes"
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2002
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