11.30 am

Claggett Auditorium

When Prior Wibert died in 1167 his obituary was recorded for the Chapter of Christ Church. It included a notice that he built “a watercourse with its ponds, conduits and fish pools, which water it carried nearly a mile from the town into the precinct and thus miraculously through all the offices of the very Precinct itself”.

Extraordinarily plans of Prior Wibert’s waterworks have survived, giving a glimpse of the day-to-day workings of the Priory, for the monks and their tenants and visitors.

Friend Dick Bolton will speak to Friends about the goings on in the Priory in circa 1160 which led to the development of a water system that rivals anything else in the rest of Europe and which, at the time, served to make our Cathedral gardens an earthly vision of Paradise.

Tickets: £8 Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, £10 non-members, includes tea and coffee on arrival