Medieval floor tiles
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A study of the medieval floor tiles of the Cathedral by Gerald Cramp and David Carder.
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J. M. W. Turner at Rochester Cathedral
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Graham Keevill, Cathedral Archaeologist studies two pencil sketches featuring Rochester Cathedral by J. M. W. Turner.
Read MoreGreat War organists, 1900-1930
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Simon Shreeve introduces the organists of Rochester Cathedral during the Great War: Bertram Luard-Selby, Charles Hylton Stuart and Hilda Milvain.
Read MoreWills of lay clerks Ricard Butler and Peter Bold, 16th century
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Andrew Ashbee explores the wills of two sixteenth-century lay clerks at the Cathedral, Richard Butler and Peter Bold, shining light on the first year of life at the Cathedral after the refoundation of the Cathedral in 1542.
Read MoreChallenges of the Great War, 1914-1918
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Geoff Ettridge explores the challenges faced to Cathedral life by the Great War.
Read MoreCathedral Priors of Rochester from 1629
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A list of the Cathedral Priors of Rochester from 1629 by David Carder.
Read MoreNicholas Clagett, Dean of Rochester 1723-1731
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David Cleggett investigates the life of Dean Nicholas Clagett.
Read MoreRoman city wall & south infirmary cloister wall
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Several references contemporary references are made to an infirmary, where the ‘smaller brothers’, the sick and infirm monks were cared for. It is thought to be situated to the east of the main cloister and forming a smaller infirmary cloister itself.
Read MoreVictorian stained glass windows→
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Lyndall Hacker and David Maxwell introduce the seventy-two brilliant stained glass windows of the Cathedral by prominent glaziers of the Victorian era.
Read MoreThe bishops of Rochester, from 604
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An analysis of the bishops of Rochester by the Revd John Prior and Alan McLean.
Read MoreGundulf, Bishop of Rochester 1077-1108
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An introduction to Gundulf, Rochester's Bishop from Normandy, with an introductory message from St Mary's Abbey, West Malling.
Read MoreFrancis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester 1713-1723
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John Sears introduces Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester 1713-1723.
Read MoreBells, belfries and bellringing
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John K. Best-Shaw and Dagmar Batterbee introduce the history of bells and bellringing at Rochester Cathedral, with a foreword by Dean of Rochester Adrian Newman.
Read MoreThe Font, designed by Thomas Earp c.1890
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Lyndall Hacker explores the Cathedral font by Thomas Earp, sculptor of the Eleanor Cross Monument in the forecourt of Charing Cross Station.
Read MoreThomas Sprat, Bishop of Rochester 1684-1713
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Barney Milligan of the Beaminster Society provides a further angle on Bishop Thomas Sprat.
Read MoreDr John Harris DD, Prebendary 1707/8-1713/4
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The significant water damage throughout Textus and subsequent rebinding is due to its accidental submersion in either the River Thames or the River Medway around 1716 on its way to notable writer and prebendary of the Cathedral Dr John Harris for use in writing his History of Kent.
Read MoreRochester Cathedral, 1800 AD
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David A. H. Cleggett reviews Daniel Alexander's survey of the fabric and concerns around the 500-year old bell tower shortly before it was replaced in the 1820s.
Read MoreRochester Cathedral in the second half of the 18th century
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David A. H. Cleggett tells the sorry tale of the Cathedral’s deterioration through the second half of the 18th century.
Read MoreBurial places of the bishops of Rochester
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Tim Tatton-Brown investigates what is known of the burial places of the bishops of Rochester.
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