Footings of Wulfric's Rotunda, St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury

In about 1050 Wulfric, abbot of St Augustine's Abbey, decided to join the two early churches of SS Peter & Paul (the first on the site) and St Mary (built directly behind it on the same alignment), to create a single large church. To do this he demolished the east wall of SS Peter & Paul and the west end of St Mary, and bridged the gap with a rotunda, a feature not seen in English churches before. Unfortunately he died before it could be completed and his successor abandoned the project, leaving only these below-ground foundations as evidence.