Portraits, 17th-20th century
/The Chapter Library and Cathedral collections features a number of painted and printed portraits of former bishops, deans and Cathedral clergy.
Read MoreThe Chapter Library and Cathedral collections features a number of painted and printed portraits of former bishops, deans and Cathedral clergy.
Read MoreRandolph Jones investigates the medieval heralds of the crypt vaulting.
Read MoreBishop’s Chaplain Lindsay Llewellyn-MacDuff discusses the medieval Lady Chapel mural in an extract from the Bertha's Daughters: A History of the Church in Kent
Read MoreA tricky but exciting project ticking away by cover of night this past year is piecing together fragments of the Cathedral’s medieval painted decoration, now beginning to shine bright again for the first time in over four centuries.
Read MoreDavid Park discusses the medieval paintings of the Cathedral and their conservation, including the exceptional 13th-century Wheel of Fortune.
Read MoreErnest William Tristram (1882-1952) was a prominent medievalist art historian and painter. His watercolour reproductions of the medieval wall paintings at the Cathedral stand as an exceptional record of this deteriorating art.
Read MoreThe painted lion decoration around the quire, produced during the reign of Edward III.
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