Friday, October 12, 2012

ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL-IN CHRIST ALONE {WITH SUBTITLES}








604AD





Saxon
cathedral built on land donated by King Ethelbert. The Saxon historian Bede
tells us that Justus, first Bishop of Rochester, was consecrated here by St
Augustine


1082

The
Benedictine Priory of St Andrew was established by Gundulf (the first Norman
Bishop) and remained until the dissolution of the monastery in 1540


1083

The
building of the present Nave was begun by