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Due to the location of the gate at Sun Street, traffic and
pedestrians need to be able to access and pass the gate at all
times.

It is also not only the main entrance for tourists but acts as
the entry point for emergency vechicles.

This has led to the workmen only being able to put up the
scaffolding between 6am and 8.45am.

It will take two weeks to put up and two weeks to take down,
leaving three weeks in between for the initial investigations to
take place.

The project is estimated to cost £2million to complete. However,
until experts have finished examining the structure an exact figure
cannot be calculated.

The last major campaign of repair on the Christ Church gate was
in the 1920s and 1930s. It was the first big project by the Friends
of Canterbury Cathedral and was descibed as pioneering for its
time.

Heather Newton, head of stone masonry and stone conservation at
Canterbury Cathedral, said: "The restoration work is tremendously
important.

"The Christ Church Gate is a wonderful example of renaissance
architecture and the only one of its kind in Canterbury."