The north-west curtain wall of Rochester Castle forms a bastion, or projection, at the point where the medieval Rochester Bridge crossed the Medway. An excavation in 2017 revealed the watergate in the west face of the bastion for the first time in decades.

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.

Archaeologist Alan Ward discusses what we know - or what little we know - about Rochester Castle in the time of Odo and Gundulf (1067-1088).

‘Black Boy’ can be found in the names of many UK pubs, roads and pathways. Rochester’s Black Boy Alley has an origin back in the years after the English Civil War.

Roll of honour of Old Roffensians and Old Cgoristers of Rochester Cathedral who gave their lives in The Great and Second World Wars and who have died on active service since the Second World War.

The north-west curtain wall of Rochester Castle forms a bastion, or projection, at the point where the medieval Rochester Bridge crossed the Medway. An excavation in 2017 revealed the watergate in the west face of the bastion for the first time in decades.

Archaeologist Alan Ward discusses what we know - or what little we know - about Rochester Castle in the time of Odo and Gundulf (1067-1088).

Ships are of the few types of graffiti for which we have contemporary written records, detailing a colourful devotional ritual to St Nicholas, the patron saint of those in peril on the sea.