Winchester, Hampshire - Cathedral - Lady Chapel Screen - Friths postcard c.1920s

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• Picture / Image:  Winchester Cathedral - Lady Chapel Screen
• Publisher:  Friths
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Winchester Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It is one of the largest cathedrals in England, with the longest nave and greatest overall length of any Gothic cathedral in Europe.^[1] Dedicated to the Holy Trinity, Saint Peter, Saint Paul, and Saint Swithun, it is the seat of the Bishop of Winchester and centre of the Diocese of Winchester. The cathedral is a Grade I listed building.

The cathedral was founded in 642 on a site immediately to the north of the present one. This building became known as the Old Minster. It became part of a monastic settlement in 971. Saint Swithun was buried near the Old Minster and then in it, before being moved to the new Norman cathedral. So-called mortuary chests said to contain the remains of Saxon kings such as King Eadwig of England, first buried in the Old Minster, and his wife Ælfgifu, are also housed in the present cathedral.^{[citation needed]} The Old Minster was demolished in 1093, immediately after the consecration of its successor.^[2]

In 1079, Bishop Walkelin began work on a completely new cathedral.^[2] Much of the limestone used to build the structure was brought across from the Isle of Wight from quarries around Binstead. Nearby Quarr Abbey draws its name from these workings, as do many local places such as Stonelands and Stonepitts. The remains of the Roman trackway used to transport the blocks are still evident across the fairways of the Ryde Golf Club, where the stone was hauled from the quarries to the hythe at the mouth of Binstead Creek, and thence by barge across the Solent and up to Winchester.^{[citation needed]}

The building was consecrated in 1093. On 8 April of that year, according to the Winchester Annals, ""in the presence of almost all the bishops and abbots of England, the monks came with the highest exultation and glory from the old minster to the new one: on the Feast of S. Swithun they went in procession from the new minster to the old one and brought thence S. Swithun's shrine and placed it with honour in the new buildings; and on the following day Bishop Walkelin's men first began to pull down the old minster.""^[2]

A substantial amount of the fabric of Wakelin's building, including the crypt, transepts and the basic structure of the nave, survives.^[3] The original crossing tower, however, collapsed in 1107, an accident blamed by the cathedral's medieval chroniclers on the fact that the dissolute William Rufus had been buried beneath it in 1100.^[2] Its replacement, which survives today, is still in the Norman style, with round-headed windows. It is a squat, square structure, 50 feet (15 m) wide, but rising only 35 feet (11 m) above the ridge of the transept roof.^[4]

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=hampshire

number of items=single

period=inter-war (1918 - 1939)

postage condition=unposted