The Two Mid-Twelfth-Century Cloister Arcades at Canterbury Cathedral Priory

Very few Romanesque cloister arcades have survived in Britain, in most cases because they were replaced in the later Middle Ages. Modern discoveries have, however, included some fine decorated capitals (particularly double capitals) and other carved stones, allowing a rough impression to be gained of at least some English Romanesque cloister arcades. Elements of one 12th-century cloister — the Infirmary Cloister at Christchurch, Canterbury — do survive in situ, and it is with this, and certain mid-12th-century fragments that probably originated in the Great Cloister, that the following paper is concerned.