"More than four hundred y years passed by between the beginning of the building of this cathedral by Archbishop Lanfranc (1070-1089) and its completion by the addition of the great central tower at the end of the fifteenth century. But before tracing the history of the construction of the present well-known fabric a few words will not be out of place concerning the church which preceded it on the same site. A British or Roman church said to have been built by a certain mythical King Lucius was given to St. Augustine by Ethelbert in a.d. 597. It was designed broadly speaking on the plan of the old Basilica of St. Peter at Rome but as to the latest date of any alterations which may or may not have been made by Augustine and his immediate successors we have no accurate information. It is however definitely stated that Archbishop Odo who held the see from a.d. 942-959 raised the walls and rebuilt the roof."