Archaelogist Graham Keevill reports on a small parapet now adorning a length of the Roman City Wall/South Cloister Garth originally situated atop the late 15th-century clerestory of the Presbytery.
Read MoreGraham Keevill, Cathedral Archaeologist studies two pencil sketches featuring Rochester Cathedral by J. M. W. Turner.
Read MoreThe Chapter House was constructed in the twelfth century and survives in ruin, having lost its roof in the 18th century. It was where the monks met daily to discuss the business of the day.
Read MoreThe ruins of a camponile (detached bell tower), to the north of the Cathedral has been known as ‘Gundulf’s Tower’ since the 18th century. Though it actually dates from the early thirteenth century, it may be constructed from reused material from Gundulf’s Tufa Stone transept.
Read MoreUnlike most monastic establishments where the cloister (‘enclosed'/’seperate’ - the monastic part of the medieval Cathedral Precinct) ranges are to the south of the nave the cloister at Rochester is situated to the south of the presbytery and quire.
Read MoreDendrochronological analysis undertaken on timbers of the roof over what is now the Chapter Library suggests felling of the timber around the time of, and possibly paused by, the Black Death.
Read MoreArchaeological investigations of the fifteenth-century Deanery Gate to the north of the Cathedral were conducted during the conversion of Deanery Gate House from office use into three flats in 2007-8.
Read MorePhilip McAleer studies the west range of the cloisters, thought to have been the cellerers range where food and drink for the priory was stored in cool, sunken vaults.
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