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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
Filed under Art, Heritage, Holidays, Winchester 2016
Capture of a French Battery…
…by the 52nd Regiment at Waterloo 1896
This incident took place during the final stages of the Battle of Waterloo, after the 52nd Light Infantry had routed the last advancing column of the French Imperial Guard and the pursuit of the French by Wellington’s army was in progress. *
*from an information plate next to the painting
4 Comments CherryPie on Nov 17th 2016
This painting by South African-born artist, Jason Askew, has been commissioned by The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum to mark the Bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo.
It is 7.50 p.m. on Sunday, 18th June 1815. A column of French Imperial Guard has just been repulsed by the 1st Foot Guards of Major-General Maitland’s brigade (top [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Nov 14th 2016
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Communion Set
The portable communion set seen [above] was used by Reverend Lumley Green-Wilkinson to administer communion to the members of the 7th and 8th battalion, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps and the 7th and 8th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, when he was Chaplain to the 41st Infantry Brigade in the 14th (Light) Division whilst serving in [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Nov 12th 2016
Filed under Art, Holidays, Winchester 2016
At the Going Down of the Sun…
…and in the morning, we will remember them.
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 11th 2016
