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.
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).
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.
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.
Bede, Opera (volume 2), with manuscript leaves, 1521
Dr Christopher Monk leaves through a volume of Bede’s second opera in the Chapter Library collection featuring two medieval manuscript paste-downs.
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.
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.
Rochester Castle in the time of Odo and Gundulf, 1067-1088
Archaeologist Alan Ward discusses what we know - or what little we know - about Rochester Castle in the time of Odo and Gundulf (1067-1088).
Baptisms, marriages and burial registers of Rochester Cathedral
Facsimile and transcriptions of the baptism, marriage and burial registers of Rochester Cathedral.
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.
Black Boy Alley, Rochester: Origin and heritage
Jacob Scott investigates the origins of the name of an alley in Rochester.
Rochester Cathedral Masons’ Marks
Jacob Harry Scott PCIfA, 2019, Dissertation for BA degree in Archaeology, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester.
People, plants and pots: the story of the growth of horticultural and cottage garden societies in the Medway towns in the late nineteenth century
Clark, Rodney, 2002, People, plants and pots: the story of the growth of horticultural and cottage garden societies in the Medway towns in the late nineteenth century, [n.p.]: [the author].
City of Rochester Upon Medway: visitors guide
1991, City of Rochester Upon Medway: visitors guide, Rochester: Rochester Upon Medway City Council.
Greenwood, E.J., 1962, The hospital of St. Bartholomew, Rochester., [Rochester]: E.J. Greenwood, [].
Greenwood, E.J., 1962, The hospital of St. Bartholomew, Rochester., [Rochester]: E.J. Greenwood, [].
Rochester Cathedral Library: its fortunes and adventures through the centuries
MacKean, W.H., 1953, Rochester Cathedral Library: its fortunes and adventures through the centuries, [n.p.]: [n.p.].
1922, The official guide to Rochester with some notes on Chatham, Strood and Gillingham, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow and Co. Ltd, [].
1922, The official guide to Rochester with some notes on Chatham, Strood and Gillingham, Cheltenham: E.J. Burrow and Co. Ltd, [].
Griffin, Ralph, 1914, Some indents of lost brasses in Kent: Canterbury Cathedral, Rochester Cathedral and Saltwood Church, London: John Bale, Sons and Danielsson.
Griffin, Ralph, 1914, Some indents of lost brasses in Kent: Canterbury Cathedral, Rochester Cathedral and Saltwood Church, London: John Bale, Sons and Danielsson.
Accounts of the Royal Surveyor of Works, Rochester AD1540-41
Hope, W.H. St. John, 1905, Accounts of the Royal Surveyor of Works, Rochester AD1540-41, London : Mitchell Hughes and Clarke.
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