Infirmary herb garden
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Head Gardener Graham Huckstepp explores the herbs of use in the Priory Infirmary.
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Gardens and Green Spaces Project
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The Cathedral Gardens Project is specially designed to enhance and improve the gardens and green spaces of the Cathedral Estate to deliver the overall mission of the Cathedral.
Read MoreVinefields and King's Orchard
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The planting of 100 vines by the Cathedral’s Head Gardener, assisted by Simpson Wine Estate, is recreating the medieval vineyard once within the area now known as King’s Orchard.
Read MoreTree conservation
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Caring for the enormous Copper Beech tree towering over the South Nave Transept and an elderly tree in the Precinct requires a specialist tree inspection.
Read MoreHow green are the Cathedral Gardens?
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In their duty to care and maintain the Gardens the Cathedral Gardeners employ a range of conservation practices to keep the gardens a key part of the biodiversity of Rochester.
Read MoreSilver Eco Church Award
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Rochester Cathedral has been awarded a Silver Eco Award for our sustainability and conservation efforts.
Read MoreThe Knot Garden
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The Cathedral has a new knot garden designed and created by Head Gardener Graham Huckstepp.
Read MoreDean Reynolds Hole: King of the Roses
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“He who would have beautiful Roses in his garden must have beautiful Roses in his heart”. So wrote Samuel Reynolds Hole, Dean of Rochester from 1877 until his death in 1904.
Read MoreJohn Doubleday's Mary and the Child Christ
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We are grateful to the Revd Melvyn Matthews, Senior Anglican Chaplain to Bristol University and the BBC World Service to quote extracts from the broadcast when he talked of a postcard the Dean sent him of the statue by John Doubleday in the Garth.
Read MoreWar damage repairs
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Cathedral Architect W. A. Forsyth reports on the repairs to the Cathedral and claims to the War Damage Commission. Featured in The Eighth Annual Report of the Friends of Rochester Cathedral Annual, published May 1950.
Read MoreRestoration of the Norman Cloister
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W. A. Forsythe reports on the restoration of the Norman Cloister in advance of its opening as the Cloister Garth gardens in the 1930s, the first project sponsored by the Friends.
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