canterbury cathedral virtual tour

As the tour launches it will automatically take you around the cathedral without you having to lift a finger.

On the left (1997) is the Cathedral's newest window, illustrating Christ's Great Commission, "Go ye forth into all the world..."; other figures include St. Peter and the Rev. Virtual Tour Back to Map. This was our first virtual tour to have an ‘AutoTour’ feature.

Bookmark. As the tour launches it will automatically take you around the cathedral without you having to lift a finger.

Canterbury Cathedral commissioned Visualise to produce this advanced, interactive, virtual tour of their awe inspiring historical site. Executed by Robert McCausland of Toronto, it was given by Louise Lambiase in memory of her brother C. Francis Rowe (1916-1995). Canterbury Cathedral commissioned Visualise to produce this advanced, interactive, virtual tour of their awe inspiring historical site. The smaller window, installed in 1981, was given in memory of John Bolt Marshall (1981). Other examples of this cross can be found at Canterbury Cathedral, together with the names of the dioceses so honoured. Close Virtual Tour. The Gargoyle above the door in the South Transept was donated by the Diocese of Bristol, England, in 1967. Tags.

To find out the answer to these and other questions, take a virtual tour of Canterbury Cathedral by clicking on the circles on the map.

At any point you can interrupt the AutoTour and take control back. Designed by Theo Lubbers Studios, Montreal, it depicts three generations of the Holy Family: St. Anne with her daughter Mary, and Mary with her son Jesus. It forms part of a World Heritage Site.It is the cathedral of the Archbishop of Canterbury, currently Justin Welby, leader of the Church of England and symbolic leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion.Its formal title is the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Christ at Canterbury. Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent, is one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England. The Museum also contains stained glass: two windows and a commemorative medallion. Our virtual tour will give you a glance of Canterbury Cathedral's stunning architecture, beautiful early medieval stained glass, soaring arches and fan vaulted ceilings. This Tour is useful if you are walking through the Cathedral, ... were made and affixed to pieces of stone from Canterbury Cathedral, then presented to each of the Cathedral Churches of the Anglican Communion throughout the world as a visible representation of communion with Canterbury.

The Museum tells the story of the Parish from its foundation in 1699. The Cathedral is the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion and seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

It is modelled on a brooch unearthed during excavations in 1860 at a site in Canterbury where churches have stood since the sixth century.

Drag the image to look around. The Cathedral Museum is on your left as you go through the passageway leading to the south transept.

John Jackson, first incumbent of the parish. That original brooch, which has come to be known as the Canterbury Cross, was Saxon in design, probably from the eighth century, and fashioned with arms of equal length hammered into an almost complete circle.

Also found in the Museum are a number of sculpted heads from the first stone ediface of the Cathedral.The Canterbury Cross is just outside the Museum, attached to the southeast pier of the transept crossing, next to the Eagle Lectern. Around 1932, reproductions of this cross, including the original's vine-leaf detailing, were made and affixed to pieces of stone from Canterbury Cathedral, then presented to each of the Cathedral Churches of the Anglican Communion throughout the world as a visible representation of communion with Canterbury.

Anglican Cathedral of St. John the Baptist  © 2020 -   Above the transept screen hangs the medallion (made by Powell/Whitefriars), presented to the Cathedral in 1933 by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel as a memorial of the SPG's centuries of support.

Bristol was the port from which John Cabot set sail in 1497 on his voyage of discovery. This gargoyle was formerly on a tower of St. Augustine's Cathedral, Bristol. This was our first virtual tour to have an ‘AutoTour’ feature. It holds such items as the letter of petition (copy on display) that was sent to the Bishop of London in 1699, the key to the 1850 Cathedral, and photographs recording the damage the Cathedral suffered in the fire of 1892.