Charles Cotton’s study reconstructs the Saxon cathedral at Canterbury and catalogues the saints associated with it. Written for archaeological-society members and general readers, it follows the church from Augustine’s mission through the Norman rebuilding under Lanfranc, drawing on documentary and architectural scholarship available in the early twentieth century.

Relevance to the Dungeon

The book’s principal subject is Canterbury Cathedral rather than the Manor of the Dungeon. It belongs in this archive because its plan of Roman Durovernum provides a useful comparison with Godfrey-Faussett’s 1875 maps and because the cathedral’s changing precinct helps establish the wider topography within which the mound and later manor developed.

Cotton’s conclusions reflect scholarship published in 1929. The volume is best used as a historical synthesis and a record of its period’s reconstruction, not as a substitute for current archaeological assessments.