MINOR CANON ROW

Minor Canon Row

Lying quietly ‘round the back’ of the Cathedral is a row of beautifully preserved early Georgian homes built in 1722. Minor Canon Row was built for, you guessed it, the Minor Canons at Rochester Cathedral, plus the Organist. The row is believed to be architecturally unique in England, based on a Dutch design of the mid 16th century. No 1 and 2 are significant. No 1 – the house at the western end – is the last place Charles Dickens used, specifically mentioned by name, in anything he wrote and at No 2 the doyen of the British stage in the 20th century – Dame Sybil Thorndike – grew up.