Priest’s House

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Introduction
Issued in 2009, No 8 is one of three buildings in Palace Street commissioned by the owners. Built in 1250 probably for the Rector of St Alphege Church next door, below. The saint is one of four Archbishops killed in Canterbury.

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Hazle Ceramics
Priest’s House
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on Canterbury Priest’s

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 Marked an Historic Building of Kent, the front is actually Victorian - from another house in Canterbury in 1888. The first floor with its overhang is dated from the late 1400s.

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 The Priest’s House is left of St Alphege Church dated 1070 - currently a Canterbury study centre.

The Canterbury Tales
Chaucer’s greatest work is in Middle English, mostly in verse.Thirty pilgrims meet by chance at the Tabard Inn in London and ride together to Thomas Becket’s shrine. On the way they tell stories - from The Knight’s Tale of courtly love to the ribald anecdotes of The Miller and The Wife of Bath’s Tale of her five husbands. Chaucer seems more interested in the tales than the pilgrimage itself.

 Geoffrey Chaucer 1340-1400 was one of the first and best storytellers in the English language. Here he is a pilgrim in the 1500 Ellsmere manuscript.

 Visitors are shocked or amused by the breast hugging gargoyles at Priest’s House!

 Pilgrims Leave Canterbury, detail of painting by George Horenbout c1520-30 in The British Museum, London.