chillenden

Updated: August 4, 2026

Prior Chillenden became prior in 1390, and seems at any rate to have devoted a considerable amount of zeal to the work of renovating the ruined portions of the church. The new #Nave# replaced the original building of Lanfranc. Winchester nave was going on at the same time with Canterbury nave, and a similar uncertainty exists about the exact commencement.

Hartley Withers - The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.] : A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Archiepiscopal See