Archive reports, 1985-2019

Archive reports, 1985-2019

The care, conservation and investigation of Rochester Cathedral has been a project spanning decades. Follow links below to archive reports available on the Cathedral website, where available.

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Archaeologia Cantiana

Archaeologia Cantiana

Rochester Cathedral has featured in dozens of articles in the county archaeological journal Archaeologia Cantiana, now available on the Kent Archaeological Society website.

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Manuscript facsimile project

Manuscript facsimile project

Sarah Taylor has been working over the lockdown months to digitise the collection of handwritten medieval volumes in the Chapter Library.

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Rochester Cathedral Lapidarium and Spolia

Rochester Cathedral Lapidarium and Spolia

Dissertation submitted for an MA at the University at Leicester, December 2021.

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Paint Projection

Paint Projection

A tricky but exciting project ticking away by cover of night this past year is piecing together fragments of the Cathedral’s medieval painted decoration, now beginning to shine bright again for the first time in over four centuries.

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Aerial exploration

Aerial exploration

Precision recording from a quadcopter drone by Geoff Watkins of Aerial Imaging South East provides some stunning views and a wealth of new data on the Cathedral architecture.

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Life of a bookworm

Life of a bookworm

Suzy Micklewright hunts down the well-known but seldom-seen bookworms.

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Conservation of the Vinegar Bible

Conservation of the Vinegar Bible

A rare misprinted bible printed by John Baskett of Oxford in 1717, also known as the Vinegar Bible, was conserved by Lara Meredith in 2015 in advance of its exhibition in the Cathedral Crypt.

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Reading Old English

Reading Old English

Dr Christopher Monk explores Anglo-Saxon characters and reads from a selection of Old English from the Textus Roffensis: King Æthelberht’s Code from the turn of the seventh century, Alfred’s Domboc (‘Book of Laws’) from the late ninth century, and a charm for stolen livestock possibly from the late tenth to the early eleventh century.

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