Cathedral in Canterbury , Kent, England. It is in the form of a double cross, with a central and two west towers. The total length is 160 m/525 ft, the east transept measuring 47 m/154 ft. The finest work of four centuries of medieval English architecture , from Norman to Perpendicular, is represented in the building. It is difficult to say how many churches have previously stood on the site of the present cathedral, though Bede mentions that St Augustine ‘recovered’ a church at Canterbury which had been built during the Roman occupation. Certainly a great fire in 1067 caused Archbishop Lanfranc (1070–93) to rebuild the church then existing. History and construction Lanfranc's new nave was identical in size to his former church in Caen in northern France. His choir was small, but his successor Anselm enlarged it to a size greater than the nave. Thus when the fire of 1174 gutted the choir, the dimensions of the cathedral had already been established, only to be enlarged by the Trinity…