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Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Winchester 2016
Winchester Cathedral
12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 2nd 2016
The Hampshire church treasure Hinton Ampner, is found in the ancient church of All Saints, where vestiges of Anglo Saxon work can be glimpsed in the mainly Norman structure.
Hinton Ampner Church of All Saints, sits on it’s hilltop gazing out to Gander Down, in one direction it looks to the Meon Valley, in the other, [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Nov 30th 2016
Filed under Holidays, Science & Nature, Winchester 2016
Saying Hello!
4 Comments CherryPie on Nov 28th 2016
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
1 John 3:11 (KJV)
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 27th 2016
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Winchester 2016
Memorial to St Swithun
St Swithun is the Saxon patron saint of Winchester Cathedral. Before the reformation his bones were displayed in a reliquary within the Benedictine Monastery. The reliquary and shrine to St Swithun was destroyed in 1538 by the commissioners of King Henry VIII.
The life of St Swithun, an Anglo-Saxon bishop, is rich in legend. A century [...]
20 Comments CherryPie on Nov 22nd 2016
