Canterbury Cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury who is also the head of the Church of England. It is located in the town of Canterbury, Kent County. The cathedral was once the most popular Christian pilgrim site in England and North Europe. 

The current architecture of Canterbury Cathedral was created in 1174 after a large fire destroyed significant portion of its previous construction. Canterbury Cathedral is linked to an important event from 1170 when the then archbishop Thomas Becket was brutally murdered in the north-west transept by four knights of King Henry II of England. The archbishop was venerated three years later and the repenting Henry II thus proclaimed the cathedral to be the center of the Anglican Communion. 

Canterbury Cathedral owes huge part of its glory to its remarkable stained windows from 12th and 13th century. The heavy bombing during the Second World War ruined most of the cathedral, however the local people managed to remove the stained windows and replaced them with regular glass before the air strike. The impressive windows are back in their places and can be seen to this day. The most important ones are considered to be the large West Window, the Biblical window and the Miracle windows.

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