Cathedral Gate Hotel

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Introduction
Issued in 2003 as the Sun Inn, once lodged in by Canterbury pilgrims. At 36 Burgate near the site of a Roman gate in the city walls, the ground floor is currently a Starbucks Coffee House with the Cathedral Gate Hotel above.

 Dated 1440, the hotel still has original oak beams and sloping walls. Left is Christchurch Gate, principal entrance to the Cathedral precincts.
The Old Buttermarket adjoins, with street music and a pub, as below. 

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Hazle Ceramics
Cathedral Gate Hotel
Open Edition
on Canterbury Burgate

 The Cathedral from Christchurch Gate. From four images taken and compiled by Hans Musil.

UK/Europe £46.50
Rest of World £40.43

Canterbury Cathedral
Founded by St Augustine in 602AD and the oldest in England. Since Archbishop Thomas Becket’s murder in 1170 by King Henry II’s four knights, it has been a place of pilgrimage - as depicted in Chaucer’s 1300s Canterbury Tales. A World Heritage Site along with Augustine’s Abbey ruins and St Martin’s Church, a million tourists every year makes this one of the most visited attractions in the UK.

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 Cathedral views from a rear hotel bedroom.

 The 12th century choir.