Category: History - British
Tower and Bells 39 West Front 43 West Doorway 46 Nave and Main Transept 50 Choir and Gundulf's Tower 52 Monastic Buildings 55 Bishop's Palace 57 Enclosure and Gates 59
The cathedral church of Rochester is, as has been already said, a very small one, and we must not expect to find in it the grandeur and impressiveness that great size often conf...
4. CHAPTER I.Long, eventful, and very interesting is the history of the cathedral, or rather of the successive cathedrals, of the ancient city of Rochester. It is many centuries since, in 59...
5. CHAPTER II.Rochester lies within a bend of the Medway and is bounded by that river on the north and west. It is girt round by chalk hills, which, on the two sides mentioned, look down on i...
7. CHAPTER IV.According to a curious legend,[15] widely circulated in the Middle Ages, the men of Rochester did not accord a patient hearing to St. Augustine when he first came thither to pre...
3. CHAPTER IV.--The Diocese and Bishops 1172. CHAPTER III.--The Interior 63Nave 63 Lady Chapel 70 Main Transept 70 Font, Pulpit, and Stalls 75 Monuments and Slabs 76 Stained Glass 78 North Choir Aisle 81 Organ 81 Choir Screen 83 Choir and Choir Transep...
1. CHAPTER II.--The Exterior 38Tower and Bells 39 West Front 43 West Doorway 46 Nave and Main Transept 50 Choir and Gundulf's Tower 52 Monastic Buildings 55 Bishop's Palace 57 Enclosure and Gates 59