Walter de Merton, Bishop of Rochester 1274-1277
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John Melhuish explores the episcopacy of Bishop Walter de Merton. Featured in The Friends of Rochester Cathedral Annual Report for 1997-1998.
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Singing chorister fragment, 12th century
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Jeffrey West studies a fragment from the West Facade featuring a singing head.
Read MoreLimoges enamel tomb of Bishop Walter de Merton, 1277
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John Blair reconstructs the limoges enamel tomb of Bishop Walter de Merton, founder of Merton College, Oxford, before its defacement by iconoclasts and reconstruction as its current form in the seventeenth century.
Read MoreRingerike gravestone fragment, c.1015
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Mary Covert discovers the exceptional Ringerike gravestone fragment reused as rubble in the south tower of the west facade, a rare survical from the pre-Conquest Cathedral cemetery when Rochester sat poised on the edge of the vast Danelaw.
Read MoreThe shrine of Saint Paulinus, 11th-14th century
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Anneliese Arnold discusses evidence relating to the shrine of Saint Paulinus at Rochester Cathedral between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries.
Read MoreInterlace panel, C8/9th
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Dr. Michael J. Swanton studies a fragment of a cross found in the vicinity of the pre-Conquest Cathedral with evidence of burning, perhaps from one of the recorded Viking attacks of Rochester.
Read MoreBeast and interlace panel, C8th
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Featuring the hindquarters of a four-legged beast, set beside an interlace panel, this fragment possibly from a tomb is the oldest sculpture yet discovered at the site.
Read MoreFragments from the effigy and chantry of Bishop Sheppey and other fragments, 13th-14th centuries
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Robert Stevens, Dean of Rochester 1820-1870, records the discovery of the monument and the effigy of Bishop John de Sheppey (1352-1360) and other fragments on the demolition of two walls in the North Quire Transept on the 15th of January 1825.
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