Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology at Rochester: v. 28

Tim Ayers

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040282311
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: History of Medieval Art

This collection of papers, first delivered at the BAA's annual conference in 2002, celebrates medieval Rochester, including both cathedral and castle, an outstanding pair of surviving monuments to the power of contemporary church and state. The contributions demonstrate the great interest of these understudied buildings, their furnishings, and historical and archaeological contexts: from the rich documentary evidence for the Anglo-Saxon town to the substantial surviving fabric of the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries. Shrines, monuments, woodwork and seals are all fully covered, as well as the medieval monks themselves. There is also a piece on Archbishop Courtenay's foundation of the nearby collegiate church at Maidstone, Kent.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Editors’ Preface
• List of Abbreviations
• Roman Rochester in its Wider Context
• Rochester, A.D. 400–1066
• The Topography and Buildings of Medieval Rochester
• Gundulf’s Cathedral
• Bishop Gundulf’s Door at Rochester Cathedral
• The Twelfth-Century Nave of Rochester Cathedral
• The Construction of the West Door way of Rochester Cathedral
• The Late Twelfth-Century East End of Rochester Cathedral
• The Medieval Shrines of Rochester Cathedral
• The Early-Thirteenth–Century Choir–Stalls and Associated Furniture at Rochester Cathedral
• The West Transept of Rochester Cathedral
• The Medieval Monuments of Rochester Cathedral
• The East Cloister Range of Rochester Cathedral Priory
• Who Were the Monks of Rochester?
• William St John Hope (1854–1919) and the Historiography of Rochester Cathedral
• Some Rochester Seals
• The Building Stones of Rochester Castle and Cathedral
• The Medieval Buildings and Topography of Rochester Castle
• The Great Tower of Rochester Castle
• The Collegiate Church of All Saints, Maidstone