A reinvestigation of the Early Modern history and collections of the Cathedral was spurred by the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests and ensuing debate on memorialisation in public spaces.
Read MoreThe story behind the names of the ‘Native Sappers and Miners’ commemorated in the 1888 Royal Engineers memorial mosaic at the west end of the Nave.
Read MoreDean of Rochester Philip Hesketh introduces the life and work of Samuel Reynolds Hole, Dean of Rochester 1887–1904, a celebrated gardener notable for his expertise with roses. First of a two-part series.
Read MoreThe C18th monument to Dame Henniker features statues of Truth and Old Time cast from the fascinating Coade stone, developed by notable early British businesswoman Eleanor Coade.
Read MoreThree areas of graveyards in the vicinity of the Cathedral were used until the mid-nineteenth century.
Read MoreRochester Cathedral features twelve intact medieval coffin-tombs spaced around the east end of the building in proximity to the high altar. They were the final resting place of bishops of priors.
Read MoreRoll 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.
Read MoreJohn Blair reconstructs the limoges enamel tomb of Bishop Walter de Merton, founder of Merton College, Oxford, before its defacement by iconoclasts and reconstruction as its current form in the seventeenth century.
Read MoreA monument to Richard Sommer is located in the south nave aisle, third bay from west.
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A memorial to Dean Ernald Lane is located on the south wall of the south quire transept.
Mural monument in the form of a rectangular black marble background with a trefoiled head within the frame, in which are set three enamelled metal shields. Below is an engraved copper kneeling figure, before a desk. An engraved copper inscription plate is at the bottom.
Inscription in engraved Gothic letters.
To the honoured memory of the Very Reverend
ERNALD LANE DD, from 1905 to 1913
Dean of this Cathedral Church: a token of
affection from the Chapter and his Friends
Physick No 62.
A memorial to James Levett, Head Verger 1909-1938, is located on the north wall of the south quire aisle.
Read MoreA memorial to Lay Clerk Thomas Oldroyd is located on the north wall of the south quire aisle.
Read MoreA memorial to Morell Thurston is located on the east wall of the south nave transept.
Read MoreA memorial to Morell Thurston is located on the east wall of the south nave transept.
Read MoreA memorial to Thomas Whiffen, former Chorister and Lay Clerk, is located on the north wall of the south quire aisle.
Read MoreA memorial to Revd. Thomas Hobson, Headmaster of King’s School, is located in the Lady Chapel.
Read MoreA memorial to Archdeacon John Law is located on the east wall of the south nave transept.
Read MoreA mural monument to William Streaton, nine times mayor of Rochester, is located in the south nave aisle.
Read MoreA mural monument to William Streaton, nine times mayor of Rochester, is located in the south nave aisle.
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