Portraits, 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.
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Early 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 MoreDean Storr's cope and sanctuary lamp, c. 1920
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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 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 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 MoreRev. Ernest Geldart's Festal Frontal, c. 1900
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The festal frontal designed by Reverend Ernest Geldart around the turn of the twentieth century is the finest altar frontal in the Cathedral collections today. Its restoration by the Rochester Cathedral Guild of Embroiderers required around 3,000 hours over 10 years.
Read MoreHistory of the Lapidarium
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Sculptural fragments revealed by excavations and works over the 19th century were the genesis of the Lapidarium collection today.
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 MoreDean Reynolds Hole (1819-1904)
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Dean 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 MorePeople, animals and beasts graffiti
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Humans are the most common subjects in the pictorial graffiti record, comprising dozens of cartoons and caricatures. Fauna, a small collection of flora and two or three cryptozoological examples lurk among the earlier graffiti clusters.
Read MoreGraffiti in restricted spaces
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Several 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 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 Oxford Movement at Rochester Cathedral, 1895-1930
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David Cleggett examines the times of Bishop Edward Talbot, Bishop John Harmer and Dean John Storrs over the late 19th and early 20th century, a High Church period in the history of the Cathedral.
Read MoreGreat War organists, 1900-1930
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Simon Shreeve introduces the organists of Rochester Cathedral during the Great War: Bertram Luard-Selby, Charles Hylton Stuart and Hilda Milvain.
Read MoreChallenges of the Great War, 1914-1918
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Geoff Ettridge explores the challenges faced to Cathedral life by the Great War.
Read MoreCathedral Priors of Rochester from 1629
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A list of the Cathedral Priors of Rochester from 1629 by David Carder.
Read MoreBells, belfries and bellringing
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John 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 MoreRoll of Honour of Old Roffensians and Old Choristers
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Roll 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.
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