For many years Rochester Cathedral has been used as an invaluable resource for schools and colleges in and around Kent. Increasing demand from teachers for access to this building and its wealth of potential educational material inspired the Dean and Chapter to appoint a full time Education Officer.
Read MoreAn abridged version of the Dean's address at the International Congress of Medieval Cathedrals held in Milan from 24th to 28th September, 1986.
Read MoreWe are grateful to the Revd Melvyn Matthews, Senior Anglican Chaplain to Bristol University and the BBC World Service to quote extracts from the broadcast when he talked of a postcard the Dean sent him of the statue by John Doubleday in the Garth.
Read MorePaul A. Welsby introduces the system of Church governance.
Read MoreAn obituary of Dean Crick by D. R. Vicary, Headmaster of the King's School.
Read MoreCanon S. L. S. Allen explores the history of Rochester Theological College.
Read MorePrecentor Canon Paul A. Welsby discusses the work of the Cathedral.
Read MoreCanon William Telfer, D.D., sometime Master of Selwyn College and Ely, and Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge, reflects on Rochester at the time of Charles Dickens.
Read MoreActress Dame Sybil Thorndike-Casson, whose stage career lasted from 1904 to 1969, reflects on a childhood as daughter of a Minor Canon of the Cathedral.
Read MoreTo celebrate the Festival of 1958 the Medway Theatre Guild staged in the Cathedral a play-"The Mystery of the Finding of the Cross".
Read MoreSubstance of an Address given in the Cathedral on 15th March 1950 by the Reverend Hugh Ross-Williamson.
Read MoreCathedral Architect W. A. Forsyth reports on the repairs to the Cathedral and claims to the War Damage Commission. Featured in The Eighth Annual Report of the Friends of Rochester Cathedral Annual, published May 1950.
Read MoreCanon Sydney Williams Wheatley was the Vicar of St Margaret's Church Rochester from 1915-1947. His collection of glass slides in the Chapter Library have been digitised and are available online.
Read MoreW. A. Forsythe reports on the restoration of the Norman Cloister in advance of its opening as the Cloister Garth gardens in the 1930s, the first project sponsored by the Friends.
Read MoreThe Friends’ Annual Reports have become a trove of research and reflections since their founding in 1935, chronicling life at the Cathedral as the community has shared in its ups and downs.
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