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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John de Sheppey Chantry reredos, c.1350
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Report on the assessment and treatment of the reredos stone from the chantry chapel of Bishop John de Sheppey, c.1340, by Carla Learoyd.
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 MoreCrucifix finial, 19th century
/Heritage Officer Jacob Scott traces a large stone crucifix featuring prominently in historic photos of the Lapidarium collection, now tentatively identified as the finial once adorning the apex of the South Quire Transept overlooking the High Street.
Read MoreThe Cathedral Organ, constructed 1791-1895
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Explore the magnificent Cathedral Organ in 3D.
Read MoreSarsen stones
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Jacob Scott investigates five odd stones around the Precinct Gardens that were possibly amongst the earliest features of the site. Part of the physical and cultural landscape from before Roman occupation, Sarsen stones have been reused and reinterpreted for thousands of years and yet still hold many mysteries.
Read MoreRoyalty and Rochester Cathedral
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As we head toward the coronation of King Charles III, Rebecca Peachey introduces the 1,400-year history of royalty and Rochester Cathedral from early patrons, records and statues to the visit of the future king.
Read MoreMedieval architecture of West Malling Abbey (under construction)
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A 3D record of the medieval architecture of West Malling Abbey by Jacob Scott.
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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Content warning
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 MorePortraits, 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.
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