Winchester Cathedral Images
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detail from font showing Saint Nicholas (patron of children) providing
dowries sparing 3 daughters from life on the streets |
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1The
West Doors within the central porch. C14th
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Epiphany
Chapel 15
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Jane Austen1775-1817. Brass plaque adjacent to black floor tomb of the
novelist in the nave
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Graffiti
- example of widespread etching some here dating from the 1700's 16
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Carved C12th font of black Tournai marble (really limestone) from
Hainault showing miracles attributed to St Nicholas
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One
of several mortuary chests in the quire. The bones from some chests
were used by Cromwell's soldiers as missiles to shatter windows 17
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4 The
West Window. Destroyed by Parliamentary forces during the Civil War
& reconstructed from fragments as a mosaic in 1660.
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Lady
Chapel showing east bay window by CE Kempe commemorating Queen
Victoria's
Diamond Jubilee 18
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5 Bishop
William Wykeham's (1366-1404) Chantry Chapel. Alabaster with angels at
his head and Benedictine Monks at his feet.
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The
altar in the Lady Chapel below the east window 19
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Epiphany chapel window designed by Edward Burne-Jones & made in the
William Morris workshops
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Pieter
Coecke van Aelst's triptych on loan in the Langton Chapel 20
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7 Holy
Sepulchre Chapel beneath the tower with paintings dated circa 1180
rediscovered during conservation work in 1963
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Entrance
to Bishop Langton's Chapel
OR view
Chapel as one scene 21
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8 Crypt
- here with Antony Gormley's Sound II 1993
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Roof
of Bishop Langton's Chantry Chapel 22
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9 Pilgrims
steps - on the route
from nave to retroquire
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William
Walker's memorial bust by the Lady Chapel. Known as the
Winchester Diver he underpinned the Cathedral east end preventing
certain collapse 23
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North presbytry aisle
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The
3 principal images in the retroquire iconostasis. All the images and "Holy Hole" are featured in a
dedicated album 24
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11 C13th
Tiles - trod by countless pilgrims
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The
Great Gothic Screen crafted in the late C19th. Original
statues were smashed during Reformation 25
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12 View
east
through the Choir, Presbytery
to the High Altar and to the gothic
Great
screen |
Front
of the Nave Altar with illustration of the creation. The choir
screen by Sir George Gilbert was installed 1874 26 |
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13 West
elevation showing west window, porch, doors and war memorial |
The
Cathedral
showing the 2nd longest nave in the country, central tower and
transept27 |
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14 North
transept and central tower |
Outside
the Cathedral stands the Memorial to the kings Royal Rifle Corps 28 |
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29 An
album of individual images of the statuary on Bishop Foxe Chantry
Chapel Click Thumbnail
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Click Thumbnail to view
a high resolution panorama of the statuary in order on Bishop Foxe
Chantry Chapel. This image uses zoomify to allow quick loading. 30 |
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