Archaeology of Roman Rochester
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Archaeologst Alan Ward introduces the Iron Age and Roman archaeology of Rochester. Featured in The Hidden Treasures, Fresh Expressions Project Archaeology Report, Keevill Heritage 2021.
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Archaeology of the Pre-Conquest Cathedral(s?), 604-c.1080
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Archaeologist Alan Ward discusses the Pre-Conquest Cathedral at Rochester. Featured in The Hidden Treasures, Fresh Expressions Project Archaeology Report, Keevill Heritage 2021.
Read More'Gundulf's Tower' camponile, 13th century
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The 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 MoreArchaeology of the Early Norman Cathedral, c. 1080 AD
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The floor plan of the west end comprising the Nave, major transept and Quire was established c.1080 when Justus's structure was torn down and the Cathedral rebuilt on a much grander plan as a statement of the new Norman regime.
Read MoreArchaeology of the Priory Cloisters
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Unlike 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 MoreArchaeology of the Cathedral Precinct
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Archaeologist Alan Ward reviews the archaeology of the Cathedral Precinct. Featured in The Hidden Treasures, Fresh Expressions Project Archaeology Report, Keevill Heritage 2021.
Read MoreConcerning the Harmony of the Gospels by St Augustine of Hippo, c. 1103
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Beverley Jacobs leafs through the oldest volume in the Chapter Library dating to circa 1100 AD.
Read MoreBishop Gundulf's cloister, c.1080-1114
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Rochester Cathedral Archaeologist Graham Keevill discusses the results of a Ground-Penetrating Radar survey of the Cloister Garth in 2017 revealing what is thought to be the foundations for Bishop Gundulf’s short-lived cloister.
Read MoreActs of Parliament 1649 and 1650: a paradise lost?
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Randolph Jones writes about a revolutionary time when the future and soul of the country hung in the balance.
Read MorePictorial and symbolic graffiti
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Some of the most enigmatic graffiti at the Cathedral are the hundred large decorative sketches on 12th century fabric, comprised of scenes from the gospels and their writers the Evangelists.
Read MoreCustumale Roffense, c.1235
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Dr Christopher Monk introduces the ‘Custumal of Rochester’, a thirteenth-century customs book from the Cathedral Priory of St Andrew full of vivid details not just of the lives of the monks but also offering valuable insight into the servants of the priory.
Read MoreGravestones
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Three areas of graveyards in the vicinity of the Cathedral were used until the mid-nineteenth century.
Read MoreBook of Hours: a day in the life
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Dr Jayne Wackett explores the tiny fifteenth-century Book of Hours.
Read MoreThe Great Bible: the gospel according to Henry VIII
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Stuart Palmer, University of Kent, shares with us a mighty message.
Read MoreLife of a bookworm
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Suzy Micklewright hunts down the well-known but seldom-seen bookworms.
Read MoreMedieval tombs
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Rochester Cathedral features twelve intact medieval coffin-tombs spaced around the east end of the building in proximity to the high altar. They were the final resting place of bishops of priors.
Read MoreAltar slab, 19th century
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A previously unrecorded thirteenth-century altar slab identified within a garden feature at King’s Orchard.
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 MoreIndex of texts in Textus Roffensis
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Index of contents in the Textus Roffensis by Dr Christopher Monk.
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.
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