Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Juliet Sutherland, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: THE CANTERBURY WEAVERS (_Page 12_) _Frontispiece_] CANTERBURY DESCRIBED BY CANON DANKS PICTURED BY E. W. HASLEHUST BLACKIE & SON LIMITED LONDON AND GLASGOW * * * * * LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Facing Page The Canterbury Weavers _Frontispiece_ St. Nicholas, Harbledown 8 Canterbury from the Stour 12 The Greyfriars' House 16 Mercery Lane 20 Canterbury Cathedral from Christ Church Gate 24 Christ Church Gate, Entrance to Cathedral Precincts 29 Fordwich 33 St. Martin's Church 37 Westgate 44 The Gateway, St. Augustine's Abbey 48 Gateway of St. John's Hospital 52 * * * * * [Illustration: CANTERBURY] THE CITY This little essay on a great subject is neither a guidebook nor a history, though it may, for many, be enough, for their purpose, of both. With its illustrations of ancient and famous scenes it is, let us say, a keepsake or memorial for some of the hundred thousand pilgrims who still annually visit Canterbury, and fall under the spell of its enchantments. It may recall to them in distant homes, some of them overseas, the thrill with which they first beheld the mother-city of English Christianity, the great church, inwoven with so much of English history, which in the Middle Ages contained one of the most venerated and far-sought shrines in Europe.