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Sarum Missal, 16th century

Rochester Cathedral Chapter Library volunteer Beverley Jacobs leafs through the 16th-century Sarum Missal, a remnant from the final days of the Priory Library.

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Animals and food at Rochester Priory, c.1235

Dr Christopher Monk explores details about animals and animal products consumed at Rochester Priory emerging from a section in Custumale Roffense concerning the monastery’s lay servants (folios 53r-60v).

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The Rochester Bible, c.1125-1140

Dr Christopher Monk explores The Rochester Bible; a richly decorated manuscript produced by the monks of St Andrew’s Priory, Rochester.

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Food rents paid to Rochester Priory, c. 1235

Dr Christopher Monk explores the role of animals and animal products at the Priory of Saint Andrew at Rochester, for everything from manuscripts to candles and transport to food.

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Sarah Baker and her Kentish Theatres, 1737-1816

A brief outline by Dr Jean Baker of the life and times of a remarkable but little-known woman (not an ancestor of hers) who played a significant role in the political, social and cultural evolution of Kent’s rapidly growing towns at the end of the eighteenth century.

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Rochester Castle watergate, c.1380

The north-west curtain wall of Rochester Castle forms a bastion, or projection, at the point where the medieval Rochester Bridge crossed the Medway. An excavation in 2017 revealed the watergate in the west face of the bastion for the first time in decades.

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Rochester Cathedral Lapidarium and Spolia

Jacob Harry Scott, B.A., ACIfA, 2021, Submitted for the degree of Master of Arts in Archaeology & Heritage School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester.

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Rochester Cathedral Masons’ Marks

Jacob Harry Scott PCIfA, 2019, Dissertation for BA degree in Archaeology, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester.

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