Bishop Blackie, Dean of Rochester 1937-43
/A white stone memorial to Dean Blackie is located on the east wall of the south quire transept.
Read MoreFrancis Barrell (d. 1724)
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A monument in the north nave aisle is dedicated to Francis Barrell.
Read MoreCathedral Organs, 1185-1989
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Paul Hale studies the history of organs at Rochester Cathedral leading to the exceptional organ over the pulpitum taking much of its current form in 1875.
Read MoreCathedral organists, 1560-1977
/Paul Hale lists the Cathedral organists from the sixteenth century. Featured in a publication by The Friends of Rochester Cathedral.
Read MoreWhatever happened to Hamo?
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Bernard Wigan considers what became of one of Rochester’s longest-serving bishops, Hamo de Hythe (1319-1352).
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Robert Scott, Dean of Rochester 1870-1887
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The Rev. E. H. Dunkley explores the career of Dean Robert Scott, presiding at the time of Sir George Gilbert Scott’s restoration of the Cathedral in the 1870s.
Read MoreWalter de Merton, Chancellor of England and founder of Merton College, Oxford
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F. M. Powicke, FBA, Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford, Hon. Fellow of Merton College, explores the life of Walter de Merton, Bishop of Rochester from 1274 to 1277 and founder of Merton College in Oxford.
Read MoreBede's Ecclesiastical History of the English peoples
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Much of the earliest history of the Cathedral and Diocese of Rochester is known from the Ecclesiastical History of the English People by the Venerable Bede c.731, considered one of the most important original references on Anglo-Saxon history.
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