Archive 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.
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Archaeologia 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 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 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 MorePaint Projection
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A 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 MoreAerial exploration
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Precision recording from a quadcopter drone by Geoff Watkins of Aerial Imaging South East provides some stunning views and a wealth of new data on the Cathedral architecture.
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 MoreLife of a bookworm
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Suzy Micklewright hunts down the well-known but seldom-seen bookworms.
Read MoreConservation of the Vinegar Bible
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A rare misprinted bible printed by John Baskett of Oxford in 1717, also known as the Vinegar Bible, was conserved by Lara Meredith in 2015 in advance of its exhibition in the Cathedral Crypt.
Read MoreReading Old English
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Dr Christopher Monk explores Anglo-Saxon characters and reads from a selection of Old English from the Textus Roffensis: King Æthelberht’s Code from the turn of the seventh century, Alfred’s Domboc (‘Book of Laws’) from the late ninth century, and a charm for stolen livestock possibly from the late tenth to the early eleventh century.
Read MoreRochester Choral Society, founded 1873
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A history of the society at the time of their centenary celebrations in 1973.
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