Sarum Missal, 16th century
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Chapter Library volunteer Beverley Jacobs leafs through the 16th-century Sarum Missal, a remnant from the final days of the Priory Library.
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The Rochester Bestiary, c.1230
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The Rochester Bestiary is a splendidly illuminated manuscript depicting wild beasts, domesticated animals and mythological creatures from around the known world. Now part of the British Library’s Royal Collection, the manuscript is on loan to Rochester Cathedral and features in the Beauty and the Beasts exhibition in the Cathedral Crypt.
Read MoreThe Rochester Bible, c.1125-1140
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The Rochester Bible is a richly decorated manuscript produced by the monks of St Andrew’s Priory, Rochester. Now part of the British Library’s Royal Collection, the manuscript is on loan to Rochester Cathedral and features in the Beauty and the Beasts exhibition in the Cathedral Crypt.
Read MoreBede, Opera (volume 2), with manuscript leaves, 1521
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Dr Christopher Monk leaves through a volume of Bede’s second opera in the Chapter Library collection featuring two medieval manuscript paste-downs.
Read MoreHigh Treason and A Wicked Contrivance?
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Library volunteer Myra Amor explores the stories of three successive bishops of Rochester each accused of treason.
Read MorePortraits, 17th-20th century
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The Chapter Library and Cathedral collections features a number of painted and printed portraits of former bishops, deans and Cathedral clergy.
Read MoreEarly photographs, 19th-20th century
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The Cathedral architecture has featured in photographs since the mid-19th century, opening fascinating windows onto previous forms and arrangements of the building and Precinct.
Read MoreCharlotte Boyd (1837-1906)
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Revd. Lindsay Llewellyn-MacDuff, author of Bertha’s Daughters, explores the life and work of Charlotte Boyd, one of the greatest benefactors to the Diocese of Rochester in modern times.
Read MorePsalter and kalendar fragments, circa 1450
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The fragments in this beautiful volume have been rebound and were presented to the Cathedral in 1921 as there are references to early Bishops and saints of Rochester Paulinus and Ithamar, as well as Bishop Romanus.
Read MoreArchive reports, 1985-2019
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The care, conservation and investigation of Rochester Cathedral has been a project spanning decades. Follow links below to archive reports available on the Cathedral website, where available.
Read MoreJohn Speed's atlas, 1676
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Library volunteer Myra Amor introduces John Speed and his Theatre of the empire of Great-Britain and A prospect of the most famous parts of the World published in 1676.
Read MoreSouth Sea Company investments, 1715-1720
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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 MoreBaptisms, marriages and burial registers
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Facsimile and transcriptions of the baptism, marriage and burial registers of Rochester Cathedral.
Read MoreArchaeologia Cantiana
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Rochester Cathedral has featured in dozens of articles in the county archaeological journal Archaeologia Cantiana, now available on the Kent Archaeological Society website.
Read MoreIsabella Gilmore and the deaconess movement
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Bishop’s Chaplain Lindsay Llewellyn-MacDuff discusses the life and work of Isabella Gilmore and the genesis of the Deaconess Movement in the early 19th century.
Read MoreManuscript facsimile project
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Sarah Taylor has been working over the lockdown months to digitise the collection of handwritten medieval volumes in the Chapter Library.
Read MoreBlack Boy Alley, Rochester
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‘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.
Read MoreConcerning the Harmony of the Gospels by St Augustine of Hippo, c. 1103
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Beverley Jacobs leafs through the oldest volume in the Chapter Library dating to circa 1100 AD.
Read MoreActs of Parliament 1649 and 1650: a paradise lost?
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Randolph Jones writes about a revolutionary time when the future and soul of the country hung in the balance.
Read MoreBook of Hours: a day in the life
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Dr Jayne Wackett explores the tiny fifteenth-century Book of Hours.
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