Can anyone tell me why Stephen Langton is buried half in and half out of Canterbury Cathedral?

SOTHC

I have found a possible reason on a website about Ely Cathedral which states - that at some later time alterations in the quire included moving the screen eastwards, thereby cutting across the monument, destroying one-third part of the canopy and burying the head of the tomb in the altar, much in the same way as was at a later time done with Stephen Langton's tomb at Canterbury. From: British History Online Source: City of Ely: Cathedral. A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume IV, R.B. Pugh (Editor) (2002). URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=21891 The exiled Archbishop's tomb was not originally built into the wall, half in and half out but this came about due to one of the numerous modifications that occurred at Cantebury Mar 23 05, 1:10 PM

mibmob

Ta SOTHC. I knew it would be you who found it for me! Off to Cantuar next week for a mosey. Mar 24 05, 9:35 AM