A reinvestigation of the Early Modern history and collections of the Cathedral was spurred by the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests and ensuing debate on memorialisation in public spaces.
Read MoreThe Reverend Canon Dr Gordon Giles introduced prominent Anglican cleric and slavery abolitionist John Newton. Talk delivered at the Black History Month event ‘The Amazing Grave of a Divine God’ at Rochester Cathedral.
Read MoreThe Reverend Belinda Beckhelling introduced Bishop Samuel Adjai Crowther, the first African Anglican bishop of West Africa. From the notes of Arnold Awoonor.
Read MoreLibrary volunteer Myra Amor introduces John Speed and his Theatre of the empire of Great-Britain and A prospect of the most famous parts of the World published in 1676.
Read MoreThe archives of the Dean & Chapter include a collection of early 18th-century stock and dividend receipts and accounts evidencing an extensive financial legacy from investments in two of the largest slave-trading companies in history.
Read MoreFacsimile and transcriptions of the baptism, marriage and burial registers of Rochester Cathedral.
Read MoreThe story behind the names of the ‘Native Sappers and Miners’ commemorated in the 1888 Royal Engineers memorial mosaic at the west end of the Nave.
Read More‘Black Boy’ can be found in the names of many UK pubs, roads and pathways. Rochester’s Black Boy Alley has an origin back in the years after the English Civil War.
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.
Rochester Cathedral
The Chapter Office
Garth House, The Precinct
Rochester
Kent, ME1 1SX
Telephone 01634 843366
Email info@rochestercathedral.org
Registered Charity Number 1206900
Cathedral opening hours 10am - 4pm Monday to Saturday 1pm - 3pm Sunday
