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Venture into Canterbury’s
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sst, do you know about Roper Place? The consortium of independent interior design businesses is full of ideas to tempt and inspire you, offering familiar brands as well as bespoke craftsmanship, all just a short stroll from the city centre. Roper Place is tucked away
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in the historic St Dunstan’s area, where on Roper Road and Roper Close you will find a collection of shops with expert staff ready, willing and able to guide and advise you about every aspect of your project, from bathrooms to fireplaces to furnishings to flooring. Roper Road and Roper Close – and indeed Roper Place – take their name from one of the city’s most illustrious families. Their one time home, Place
House with its magnificent, ancient doorway, is just down the street from St Dunstan’s Church. It was here that Margaret Roper lived. She married into the family and her father was Sir Thomas More, Henry VIII’s chancellor. He was also a respected scholar, and wrote Utopia, a novel about a perfect island state. He was martyred when he opposed the king during the Reformation. Margaret brought his head home and laid it in the Roper family vault at St Dunstan’s Church. The imposing figure wearing a chain of office on the Roper Place logo is Sir Thomas More (or St Thomas More, as he is known in the Catholic church). In this way, the logo combines Canterbury’s rich past with its vibrant present.
Lenleys is part of Roper Place.
Roper Place comprises of: Heatdesign Woodburners, cookers & fireplaces Clarks
Graham Terrazzo
Flooring & furniture Bathrooms
Instyle Interiors Kitchens & fitted furniture Hillside Interiors Fitted bedrooms & studies Lenleys
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Furniture, beds, flooring & soft furnishings 01227 766655 Restaurant
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The INDEX magazine September 2011
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