Sarum Missal, 16th century
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Chapter Library volunteer Beverley Jacobs leafs through the 16th-century Sarum Missal, a remnant from the final days of the Priory Library.
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The Danelaw, 9th-11th century
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Dr Alexander Thomas introduces the Danelaw; an 11th-century name for the areas of Northern and Eastern England in which the laws of the Danish Viking empire from the late 9th century until the early 11th century.
Read MoreBestiarum (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 MoreAnimals and food at Rochester Priory
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Dr Christopher Monk explores details about animals and animal products consumed at Rochester Priory emerging from a section in Custumale Roffense concerning the monastery’s lay servants (folios 53r-60v).
Read MoreElizabeth Elstob’s excerpts from Textus Roffensis 1712
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Elizabeth Elstob made a facsimile of Textus Roffensis (c.1123), in two parts. Here, Dr Christopher Monk explores her handwritten copies of the three Old English Kentish law codes, unique to Textus, and her copy of the foundation charter of Rochester Cathedral with its marvellous decorated initial.
Read MoreThe Rochester Bible, c.1125-1140
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The Rochester Bible is a richly decorated manuscript produced by the monks of St Andrew’s Priory, Rochester. Now part of the British Library’s Royal Collection, the manuscript is on loan to Rochester Cathedral and features in the Beauty and the Beasts exhibition in the Cathedral Crypt.
Read MoreInfirmary Herbary
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Head Gardener Graham Huckstepp explores the herbs growing in the Infirmary Herb Garden.
Read MoreFood rents c. 1235
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Dr Christopher Monk explores the role of animals and animal products at the Priory of Saint Andrew at Rochester, for everything from manuscripts to candles and transport to food.
Read MoreBede, Opera (volume 2), with manuscript leaves, 1521
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Dr Christopher Monk leaves through a volume of Bede’s second opera in the Chapter Library collection featuring two medieval manuscript paste-downs.
Read MoreHigh Treason and A Wicked Contrivance?
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Library volunteer Myra Amor explores the stories of three successive bishops of Rochester each accused of treason.
Read MoreThe Cathedral Organ, constructed 1791-1895
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Explore the magnificent Cathedral Organ in 3D.
Read MoreMary Elizabeth and John Griffith, Canon of Rochester 1827-1879
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T. H. James introduces Rev. Dr John Griffith and his wife Mary Elizabeth Griffith, benefactors to the Cathedral in the 19th century.
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 MoreSarah Baker and her Kentish Theatres, 1737-1816
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A brief outline by Dr Jean Baker of the life and times of a remarkable but little-known woman (not an ancestor of hers) who played a significant role in the political, social and cultural evolution of Kent’s rapidly growing towns at the end of the eighteenth century.
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 MoreCharlotte Boyd (1837-1906)
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Revd. Lindsay Llewellyn-MacDuff, author of Bertha’s Daughters, explores the life and work of Charlotte Boyd, one of the greatest benefactors to the Diocese of Rochester in modern times.
Read MoreJohn Newton (1725-1807)
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The 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.
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