St Nicholas Church

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Kent Valkerie
Jun 14th, 2018 -
Janet Holness
Oct 23rd, 2019 -
BK
Jul 4th, 2019
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Q Where is St Nicholas Church located?
A St Nicholas Church is located at St Nicholas Hospital, Church Hill, Canterbury, eng CT2 9AD
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A St Nicholas Church has a 4.3 Star Rating from 3 reviewers.
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The spring emerges at the bottom of the hill, enclosed in a stone well head. A carved stone, in the centre shows the coat of arms of the Black Prince: three feathers taken from the blind King of Bohemia at the battle of Crecy. The well was thought to be able to cure illnesses, and this is probably why the leper hospital was built in 1084 by Archbishop Lanfranc. Among pilgrims looking for a cure for this complaint was the Black Prince, who patronised the well twice: the first on his last journey to Canterbury, when he was cured, and then finally, on his death bed in 1376 when he died of syphilis. The well was then named after him. You can see the tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral, with his effigy in full armour.
The village of Harbledown was the last stop on the pilgrims journey to Canterbury from London, to see the bones of St. Thomas, murdered by four knights of Henry 2nd. There is a reference to the village near the end of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. In the Prologue to the Manciple's tale, the pilgrims are said to be near Bobbe-up-and-doun (Harbledown), under the Blee (Blean).

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