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 MoreFacsimile and transcriptions of the baptism, marriage and burial registers of Rochester Cathedral.
Read MoreRochester Cathedral has featured in dozens of articles in the county archaeological journal Archaeologia Cantiana, now available on the Kent Archaeological Society website.
Read MoreThe master miller of Rochester Priory received a food gift at Easter for his services to the community of monks there. That gift was a flan. In this video, Dr Christopher Monk recreates a medieval recipe for a sweet creamy flan: silky smooth and delicious!
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 MoreThe most exceptional historic embroidery in the Cathedral collections, this item was probably a dalmatic; a vestment used by a Deacon. It dates from the fifteenth or sixteenth centuries is the oldest vestment in the Cathedral collections by centuries.
Read MoreOne of several elaborate sculptural fragments discovered in the North Quire Transept and possibly originating in John de Sheppey’s chantry chapel.
Read MoreOne of several elaborate sculptural fragments discovered in the North Quire Transept and possibly originating in John de Sheppey’s chantry chapel.
Read MoreSeveral elaborate sculptural fragments discovered in the North Quire Transept are thought to have originated in John de Sheppey’s chantry chapel.
Read MoreThis elaborate piscina or lavabo bowl was used to dispose of water in the Mass. It was recently discovered reused as a garden feature at a local property in the Precinct.
Read MoreIeva Stradina’s in-depth conservation report of one of five Somer family heralds reveals the story behind a tomb destroyed around the time of the English Civil War.
Read MoreA battered plaster statuette of Christ bearing the crucifix would once have sat atop a tomb, although its provenance is currently unknown.
Read MoreTwo Caen stone fragments of an elaborate piece of sculpture in high relief may have originated from the shrine of St William of Perth.
Read MoreFeaturing a hog with an apple in its mouth, this quadripartite boss possibly originated in the cellarer’s range of the monastic priory.
Read MoreThese arms belong to the Cayley family of Brompton Yorkshire, who were created baronets in 1661.
Read MoreFeaturing an unknown Bishop, this large label stop is one of a pair which for some time resided around the Cathedral Precinct. Its provenance is currently unknown.
Read MoreA relief of a Romanesque bishop once adorning the West Facade possibly depicts St Paulinus.
Read MoreRomanesque sculpture reused in the spandrels of the Great West Window removed during Cottingham’s 1820s restoration, together with the evidence from other resued fragments in the vicinity, make it possible to piece together the form of the upper portions of the Romanesque west facade.
Read MoreThree plastered tufa stones, one depicting the shoulders of a Bishop with a halo possibly originated from a small annex on the east of the building proposed to be a reliquary for the bones of these two saints.
Read MoreThe 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.
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