Bestiarum (Book of Beasts)
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Dr Diane Heath of the Medieval Animals Project reveals the history of the medieval bestiary, or book of beasts.
Read MoreThe Cathedral Organ, constructed 1791-1895
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Explore the magnificent Cathedral Organ in 3D.
Read MoreChristopher Chavasse, Bishop of Rochester 1940-1960
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Bishop Chavasse is remembered as a patron of the French Hospital charity at La Providence, several Anglican schools and colleges throughtout the diocese, and for his outspoken evangelism efforts and extreme opinions given informally to the Wolfenden Report.
Read MorePortrait prints, 17th-20th century
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The Chapter Library and Cathedral collections features a number of painted and printed portraits of former bishops, deans and Cathedral clergy.
Read MoreEarly photographs, 19th-20th century
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The Cathedral architecture has featured in photographs since the mid-19th century, opening fascinating windows onto previous forms and arrangements of the building and Precinct.
Read MorePriory wall, c.1225-1340
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The walls of the medieval priory of Saint Andrew survive in sections around the boundary of the Cathedral Precinct, particularly well preserved in the south-east corner.
Read MoreColonial heritage at Rochester Cathedral
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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 MorePsalter and kalendar fragments, circa 1450
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The fragments in this beautiful volume have been rebound and were presented to the Cathedral in 1921 as there are references to early Bishops and saints of Rochester Paulinus and Ithamar, as well as Bishop Romanus.
Read MoreArchive reports, 1985-2019
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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.
Read MoreJohn Speed's atlas, 1676
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Library 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 MoreBishop Hamo of Hythe (c.1275-1352)
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Perhaps second only to Gundulf in shaping the medieval Cathedral and St Andrew’s Priory, there is some evidence to suggest it may be down to Hamo and the turbulent times in which he lived that resulted in the two halves of Textus being bound together in the mid-fourteenth century.
Read MoreInvestments in the South Sea Company by the Dean & Chapter of Rochester Cathedral, 1715-1720
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The 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 MoreBaptisms, marriages and burial registers
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Facsimile and transcriptions of the baptism, marriage and burial registers of Rochester Cathedral.
Read MoreArchaeologia Cantiana
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Rochester Cathedral has featured in dozens of articles in the county archaeological journal Archaeologia Cantiana, now available on the Kent Archaeological Society website.
Read MoreThe Last Stand of Lieutenant Henn and his Sappers
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The 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 MoreRev. Ernest Geldart's Festal Frontal, c. 1900
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The festal frontal designed by Reverend Ernest Geldart around the turn of the twentieth century is the finest altar frontal in the Cathedral collections today. Its restoration by the Rochester Cathedral Guild of Embroiderers required around 3,000 hours over 10 years.
Read MoreChapter Library Doorway, c. 1340
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Commissioned by Bishop Hamo de Hythe around the time of the Black Death, the Chapter Doorway is described as one of the finest examples of the English Decorated style, although we find issue its iconography today.
Read MoreManuscript facsimile project
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Sarah Taylor has been working over the lockdown months to digitise the collection of handwritten medieval volumes in the Chapter Library.
Read MoreKings, Queens and Consorts
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The medieval equivalent of a datestone, dozens of regal sculpted heads adorn the Cathedral architecture, from the House of Normandy to Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Read MoreRochester Cathedral Lapidarium and Spolia
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Dissertation submitted for an MA at the University at Leicester, December 2021.
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