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Archive for the tag 'Winchester Cathedral'
Filed under Holidays, Winchester 2019
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
12 Comments CherryPie on May 5th 2019
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Winchester 2019
Winchester – Day Three
I had a pre breakfast walk, retracing my steps from the previous evening on the off chance that I might spot the missing Radley charm. As expected, I didn’t but I enjoyed walking in the early morning sunshine along the almost deserted streets of Winchester.
When breakfast arrived it was not as we expected. Yesterday the [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on May 3rd 2019
Filed under Anecdotes, Faith Foundations, Holidays, Winchester 2019
Easter Morning at Winchester Cathedral
Click on the photo below to access my video taken from the peaceful Dean Garnier Garden on Easter Morning .
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6 Comments CherryPie on Apr 22nd 2019
Filed under Art, Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Winchester 2014
The Crypt – Winchester Cathedral
The original Norman east end of the Cathedral was built upon a crypt, which remains virtually unchanged. It contains a well, underneath the High Altar, which my pre-date the present Cathedral.*
This superb low-vaulted stone crypt, which floods in rainy months, dates from the 11th century, the earliest phase of building the Cathedral. Here you’ll find Antony [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Mar 17th 2017
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Winchester 2014
The Chapel of St John the Evangelist and the Fisherman Apostles
On my first visit to Winchester Cathedral one of the south transept chapels, The Chapel of St John the Evangelist and the Fisherman Apostles, drew me in. Within this chapel can be found the grave of Izaak Walton, who became famous as the author of ‘The Complete Angler’.
The modern altar by Peter Eugine Ball [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Mar 14th 2017
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Winchester 2016
Winchester Cathedral
12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 2nd 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
