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All Saints Cottage, Canterbury

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292: 316: 352: 340: 328: 31: 304: 181: 188: 212:, Kent, England is a building dating from the 16th century. Its origins and original purpose and configuration are all uncertain; it may have been designed as a single house, or as a range of smaller cottages, or have served some commercial or religious function. It is built of timber, and has two storeys, the upper level being supported on 263:
in the forms of "fabulous beasts". A staircase leads from the lower to the upper floor, which consists of a single room, 77 ft in length. The trust's 2007 report indicates that the upper storey was originally subdivided, although interconnected, and suggests that it may have initially been used
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By the 20th century the site, then configured as individual dwellings, was derelict and was restored by Walter Sidney Cozens, son of Walter Cozens, an amateur architect and founder of the Canterbury Historical and Archaeological Society. It subsequently served as a
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construction, described by the Canterbury Historical and Archaeological Society as one of the best-surviving of its type in the city. The original purpose and configuration of the building is uncertain. The society suggests that it was built as a staging point for
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The cottage forms the street frontage of a larger structure, now termed All Saints Court, comprising the cottage itself, with brick wings to either side dating from the 18th century, and enclosing a garden which backs onto the
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The building comprises a two-storey range, the upper floor extending over the street and supported by
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for storage, with the ground floor functioning as a row of shops.
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All Saints seen on the right hand side of All Saints Lane
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All Saints Cottage dates from the 16th century. It is of
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Buildings and structures completed in the 16th century
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house
Canterbury
Kent
51°16′49″N 1°04′43″E / 51.2804°N 1.0786°E / 51.2804; 1.0786
Vernacular
Listed Building
All Saints Cottage, Canterbury is located in Kent
Canterbury
joists
brackets
carved
Grade II listed building
timber-framed
pilgrims
Eastbridge Hospital
joists
corbels
carved
Youth Hostel
Woodman School of Dancing
Grade II listed building
The entrance to All Saints
A side and front view
All Saints seen on the right hand side of All Saints Lane
Bracket carving
Bracket carving
Bracket carving
pilgrimage
martyrdom

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