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St Paul's
St Paul's church may possibly stand on the site of a Roman cemetery chapel, as it is situated just outside the Burgate, close to where Roman burials have been excavated. The present building, constructed in the early 13th Century, replaced an Anglo-Saxon church. St Paul's was extended eastwards in the 14th Century to join up with the tower, then enlarged again in the mid 19th Century with the addition of a new aisle and south vestry. An infants school (now demolished) was built behind the church, and a church hall constructed to the left of the church; this hall was destroyed in the Blitz of June 1942 (a new church hall has recently been constructed on the same site). Records in Cathedral Archives
Famous Burials John Twyne Buried in 1581. John Twyne was the first headmaster of King's School on its re-establishment in 1541, after the dissolution of the monasteries. He also became Mayor of Canterbury in 1553, and the Member of Parliament for the city, serving a spell in the Tower for some of his reactionary views. He lost his positions when Elizabeth I came to the throne, but as an Alderman of Canterbury became regarded as a scholar. Sir George Rooke Died 1708/09. Admiral, in charge of the capture of Spanish and French ships in Vigo Bay in 1702, and helped to capture Gibraltar in 1704.
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