John Storrs was Dean of Rochester Storrs from 1913 until his death in 1928. His cope is one of the most intricate items in the vestments collection, and is still worn by the Dean for some special services.
Read MoreThe 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 MoreRecording the responsibilities of the church attendants.
Read MoreSeveral of the largest graffiti clusters occur within the non-public, seldom-used or inaccessible areas of the cathedral, entered by only a few hundred people over the last 500 years.
Read MoreWhat is to be done for our benefactors on their anniversary days and how we ought to include them at Mass for the dead.
Read MoreSimon Shreeve introduces the organists of Rochester Cathedral during the Great War: Bertram Luard-Selby, Charles Hylton Stuart and Hilda Milvain.
Read MoreGeoff Ettridge explores the challenges faced to Cathedral life by the Great War.
Read MoreThe ruins of a camponile (detached bell tower), to the north of the Cathedral has been known as ‘Gundulf’s Tower’ since the 18th century. Though it actually dates from the early thirteenth century, it may be constructed from reused material from Gundulf’s Tufa Stone transept.
Read MoreJohn K. Best-Shaw and Dagmar Batterbee introduce the history of bells and bellringing at Rochester Cathedral, with a foreword by Dean of Rochester Adrian Newman.
Read MoreColin Flight pieces together the evidence for the bells and bell towers of the Cathedral in the early thirteenth century.
Read MoreDavid A. H. Cleggett investigates the short-lived tower erected by Lewis Nockall Cottingham in 1825 and replaced by the present 1904 tower and spire.
Read MoreThe ship's bell of HMS Kent is located in the South Quire Aisle accompanied by a painted wooden plaque of the White Horse of Kent.
Read MoreThe bell of HMS Rochester hangs in the North Quire Transept.
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Rochester Cathedral
The Chapter Office
Garth House, The Precinct
Rochester
Kent, ME1 1SX
Telephone 01634 843366
Email info@rochestercathedral.org
Registered Charity Number 1206900
Cathedral opening hours 10am - 4pm Monday to Saturday 1pm - 3pm Sunday
