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 Reverend Canon Dr Gordon Giles introduced prominent Anglican cleric and slavery abolitionist John Newton. Talk delivered at the Black History Month event ‘The Amazing Grave of a Divine God’ at Rochester Cathedral.
Read MoreThe Reverend Belinda Beckhelling introduced Bishop Samuel Adjai Crowther, the first African Anglican bishop of West Africa. From the notes of Arnold Awoonor.
Read MoreLibrary volunteer Myra Amor introduces John Speed and his Theatre of the empire of Great-Britain and A prospect of the most famous parts of the World published in 1676.
Read MoreThe archives of the Dean & Chapter include a collection of early 18th-century stock and dividend receipts and accounts evidencing an extensive financial legacy from investments in two of the largest slave-trading companies in history.
Read MoreFacsimile and transcriptions of the baptism, marriage and burial registers of Rochester Cathedral.
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 More‘Black Boy’ can be found in the names of many UK pubs, roads and pathways. Rochester’s Black Boy Alley has an origin back in the years after the English Civil War.
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 MoreMemorial to Brigadier General H. S. Langhorne, CB, CMG. is commemorated by a memorial on the north wall of the Lady Chapel.
Read MoreSappers who were killed in the Sudan Expedition 1897-1898, part of the Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan are commemorated by a plaque on the west wall of the South Nave Aisle to the left of the main Royal Engineer Memorial.
Read MoreMajor General Joseph Oates Travers is commemorated by a memorial in the North Quire Aisle.
Read MoreCaptain (Brevet Lieut-Colonel) Ernest Frederic David is commemorated by a memorial in the North Quire Aisle.
Read More‘Major General Charles George Gordon C.B…. Captain F. J. Romilly and Lieutenant E. M. B. Newman killed at Tofrek. Lieutenant W. B. Askwith killed at Suakin and 31 noncommissioned and 74 men of the Royal Engineers and of the Queens own Madras Sappers and Miners who fell in the Egyptian and Soudan Campaigns 1882 To 1885’.
Read MoreRetired Colonel Roy J. Trett, OBE, TD was a member of the Cathedral community for many years. His research notes on those named in the military memorials are bound in 5 volumes in the Chapter Library.
Read MoreThe memorial for the 1914/18 War which is situated beneath the King's and Regimental Colours of the old Chatham Division of the Royal Marines in the North Quire Aisle.
Read MoreMajor General Sir James Browne K.C.S.I.,CB. is commemorated by a memorial in the North Quire Aisle.
Read MoreRaymonde Morris, RAF is commemorated by a memorial on the north wall of the Lady Chapel. Morris was serving as an air-gunner in a Blenheim bomber over France when he was shot down, within a month of his twentieth birthday.
Read MoreCaptain William Robert Moorsom is commemorated by a memorial in the North Nave Aisle.
Read MoreColonel Anthony William Durnford, RE is commemorated by a stained glass window in the South Nave Aisle. Durnford was killed at the battle of IsandhIwana (Zulu War), January 22, 1879.
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