Reconstruction
detail of the Buttermarket area of Canterbury in the mid sixteenth century
showing the Christ Church Gate, top centre. The gate, built by 1517,
incorporates some of the earliest Renaissance detail surviving in the
city. Just inside the Cathedral Precincts is a row of timber-framed
shops. In front of the gate is the Buttermarket, then called the Bullstake.
To the left of the gate is the porter's lodge, a fine, jettied, timber
building, parts of which still survive and to the right is The Sun Inn.
Substantial parts of The Sun still survive. At the centre of the view,
adjoining Buttermarket, is The Bull Inn, now occupied by four different
shops. On the opposite side of Buttermarket, top left, was the Rush
Market, now called Sun Street.