File:Canterbury Cross 2.jpg
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| Description | The original Canterbury Cross which is on permanent display at Canterbury Heritage Museum, Canterbury, Kent, England. Dated circa 850 AD, made of Anglo-Saxon bronze. To Anglican Christians it symbolises the Church of Canterbury. Dug up in St Georges Street, Canterbury, in 1867. "Cast in bronze with incised decoration and with applied silver triangles engraved and filled with niello enamel to give subtle contrasts of colour" (information from description card in Heritage Museum). |
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| Author | Storye book |
| Other versions | This image shows the reverse of the cross: File:Canterbury Cross 3.jpg |
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| current | 10:46, 8 August 2013 | | 1,668 × 1,652 (1.31 MB) | wikimediacommons>Storye book | trimmed |
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