St. Augustine, the first Archbishop of Canterbury arrived on the coast of Kent in the year 597. The legend says that Pope Gregory the Great was struck by the beauty of the slaves, the angles, whom he saw in the slave market, so he ordered Augustine, accompanied by several monks to go as a missionary to England, to convert the country to Christianity. The king of Kent Ethelbert was married to a Frankish Princess Bertha, who was already a Christian, and was favorably disposed toward Christianity. According to other sources - the king of Ethelbert asked Pope Gregory to send missionaries to Britain. Augustine was elevated to Bishop and identified the location of his Episcopal throne in Canterbury. In 602 year was laid for the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

The key moment in the history of Canterbury Cathedral was the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket on 29 December 1170. He was canonized, and in the Cathedral stretched pilgrims from across Britain. It is the pilgrimage describes Geoffrey Chaucer in "the Canterbury tales".

In subsequent centuries the Cathedral was repeatedly rebuilt and reconstructed, but some choirs and some Windows with stained-glass Windows preserved from the 12th century, when the Cathedral was rebuilt after a devastating fire in 1174. Like many similar architectural ensembles, Canterbury Cathedral is a combination of various architectural styles and directions. The composition of the building is very complex: the Cathedral consists of a set attached to each other rooms and chapels and is surrounded by buildings of various purposes.

The oldest part of the Cathedral - Eastern stores features of Romanesque architecture, and the Central nave was built in the late 14th - early 15th century. Architect William English erected the magnificent chapel of the Holy Trinity, which kept the cancer of Thomas Becket. In the Cathedral's many stained glass Windows, amazing beauty, the earliest of which dates back to the year 1176. On the stained glass Windows depicted biblical scenes and scenes of everyday life and faces of real people.

Later were built the Cathedral's tower, and North tower was completed in 1832. In the Central tower shows the influence of French style, but located between the towers is a large window is an example of typical English architecture. In the Cathedral are broken very beautiful monastery gardens with a beautiful collection of rare plants.