Rochester Cathedral built

650 CE.

Shown on the map at 51.389°, 0.503°.

Rochester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, is in Rochester, Kent, England. The cathedral is the mother church of the Church of England Diocese of Rochester and seat (cathedra) of the Bishop of Rochester, the second oldest bishopric in England after that of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The present cathedral, rebuilt on the site of its predecessor in the Norman style, is a Grade I listed building.

Text from the Wikipedia article Rochester Cathedral, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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