Great West Door Portal, c.1150
/Dozens of dragons, chimera, disgorging beasts and other grotesques encode worldly sins and dangers as preached by the Church in the mid-C12th, ‘othered’ and outside of the sanctity and mission within.
Read MoreDozens of dragons, chimera, disgorging beasts and other grotesques encode worldly sins and dangers as preached by the Church in the mid-C12th, ‘othered’ and outside of the sanctity and mission within.
Read MoreTim Tatton-Brown reports on some small-scale archaeological investigations in August 2000 in advance of the production of the fresco in the eastern archway of the greater North Transept.
Read MoreColin Flight pieces together the evidence for the bells and bell towers of the Cathedral in the early thirteenth century.
Read MoreBernard C. Worssam investigates the many types of building stone used in the construction of the Cathedral from the medieval times until Sir George Gilbert Scott’s restoration of the 1870s.
Read MoreDr. Jane Geddes explores some of the historic doors of Rochester Cathedral.
Read MoreRochester Cathedral – a place of Christian worship since AD604. Located in the heart of Rochester on the banks of the River Medway in Kent.
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