The King's School is a public school in Canterbury, Kent, England for pupils aged 13-18. It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and the Eton Group. It is Britain's oldest pu
The school viewed from Canterbury Cathedral
Green Court Gate (c.1160) with the former almonry building on the left
The Cemetery Gate, built in the 14th century.
The Priory block, built around 1100 as part of the medieval priory. It was acquired by King's in 1936.
Augustine of Canterbury
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Augustine of Canterbury was a Christian monk who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597. He was the prior of a Benedictine monastery in Rome when Pope Gregory I chose him in 595 to
The King's School, Canterbury
…has been uninterrupted since AD 597. The historical claim of a founding date in AD 597 is difficult to verify directly. Although there is evidence that St Augustine did in fact establish a centre of learning in Canterbury, as part of a mission to re-establish Christianity in the Kingdom of Kent (known as the Gregorian…
Portrait labelled "AUGUSTINUS" from the mid-8th-century Saint Petersburg Bede, though perhaps intended as Gregory the Great.
Æthelberht of Kent imagined in a statue at Canterbury Cathedral
Augustine's gravesite at Canterbury