The installation of the 20m-long (65ft) dragon in the nave of Rochester Cathedral is to mark the 900th anniversary of Textus Roffensis. The Anglo-Saxon manuscript, which was written in Rochester ...

Draco Roffensis, aka The Rochester Dragon, is celebratign 900 years since the creation of Textus Roffensis, the cathedral’s most significant contribution to medieval writing. Enter the dragon ...

The Textus Roffensis, guarded by Rochester Cathedral since it was written in 1123-24 AD The medieval book contains two manuscripts: a collection of documents including the Law of Ethelberht who ...

The document, known as the Textus Roffensis, predates the Magna Carta by nearly 100 years. It was compiled in the early 1120s by a monk of St Andrew's Priory at Rochester Cathedral in Kent.

A manuscript predating the Magna Carta is to be seen, in full, online, by the public for the first time thanks to a project involving digital experts at The University of Manchester working in ...

An edition of the Magna Carta dating back seven hundred years is coming to Rochester Cathedral. It will appear alongside an even older artefact called the 'Textus Roffensis'. The display marks the ...

The cathedral hosts the earliest recorded English laws dating back to the 7th century, the Textus Roffensis, written by monks at the priory of St Andrew in Rochester in the 1120s. It was added to ...

Rochester Cathedral will light up with legends, dragons and biblical scenes in an immersive show inspired by its history dating back more than 1,400 years. Visitors to the country’s second ...