Infirmary Herbary
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Head Gardener Graham Huckstepp explores the herbs growing in the Infirmary Herb Garden.
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Sarsen stones
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Jacob Scott investigates five odd stones around the Precinct Gardens that were possibly amongst the earliest features of the site. Part of the physical and cultural landscape from before Roman occupation, Sarsen stones have been reused and reinterpreted for thousands of years and yet still hold many mysteries.
Read MoreDwarf parapet wall, c.1490
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Archaelogist Graham Keevill reports on a small parapet now adorning a length of the Roman City Wall/South Cloister Garth originally situated atop the late 15th-century clerestory of the Presbytery.
Read MoreDean Reynolds Hole: King of the Roses→
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The Old Deanery was built in 1640 over the east part of the Chapter house of the Priory. A plaque records 'The deanery is situated where the prior's lodging formerly stood with its gardens extending south-eastward'. Dean Samuel Hole laid out a garden and planted a rose collection in the 1890s.
Read MoreThe Old Deanery Garden sundail, 1825
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Mr Daniel, formerly of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, discusses a 19th-century sundail from the Old Deanery garden.
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