Virtual Tour of Rochester Cathedral
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The Nave - looking east - more info
Leaving the Lady Chapel through its western doorway and coming round to the great west doors, you can now look all the way down the nave, through the Pulpitum screen up to the High Altar at the east end.
The simple, yet beautifully decorated, rounded arches of the Normans give way to the taller points of the Early English encroachments, the large arches of the Crossing and the splendour of the screen and organ case. Above, the roofs change from the plain wood of the nave to the painted plaster of the Crossing, and again to the stone vaults of the quire. Beyond the nave altar, set between the two icons (one by Fyodorov), up the steps to the distant view of Gilbert Scott’s reredos behind the High Altar, it all adds up to a visual parable of the human pilgrimage to Heaven.
The picture above shows a view from west to east – a glimpse of our calling to seek God.
