ROYAL WINCHESTER
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The Cathedral: West Front.
WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL.
ROYAL
WINCHESTER
WANDERINGS IN AND ABOUT
THE ANCIENT CAPITAL OF ENGLAND
BY THE
REV. A. G. L’ESTRANGE, M.A.
AUTHOR OF
“THE VILLAGE OF PALACES,” “THE FRIENDSHIPS OF M. R. MITFORD,” ETC., ETC.
WITH NUMEROUS TEXT AND FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM
ORIGINAL SKETCHES BY C. G. HARPER
SECOND EDITION.
LONDON:
SPENCER BLACKETT
35, ST. BRIDE STREET, LUDGATE CIRCUS, E.C.
(All rights reserved.)
Among those who have kindly afforded me information during the progress of this work are the Very Rev. Dr. Kitchin, Dean of Winchester, the Rev. Dr. Sewell, Warden of New College, Oxford, the Rev. J. G. Young, Mr. F. Baigent, Mr. J. H. Round, Mr. T. Stopher, and Mr. C. G. Harper. I have consulted, among recent works, those of the Misses Bramston and Leroy, the Rev. H. C. Adams, and Mr. Woodward.
THE AUTHOR.
[CONTENTS.]
| FIRST DAY. | |
| PAGE | |
| Introduction — The High Street — The Castle — King Arthur — Historical Reminiscences — Executions — The CivilWar — Charles II.’s Palace — The Westgate — Wyke —Littleton — Crawley — Lainston — Sparsholt | [1] |
| SECOND DAY. | |
| “God Begot” House — The High Street — Old Guildhall —Butter Cross — King Alfred — The Penthouse — St.Maurice’s Church — The Bell and Crown — New Guildhall — Museum — Archives — St. Mary’s Nunnery — St.John’s Hospital — Soke Prison — St. Giles’ Hill — TheFair | [49] |
| THIRD DAY. | |
| The City Walls — Danemead — Eastgate — Northgate —Westgate — Southgate — Kingsgate — The College —Wykeham — Wolvesey — Raleigh | [85] |
| FOURTH DAY. | |
| Jewry Street and the Jews — Hyde Abbey — St. Grimbald — Destruction of Tombs — Headbourne Worthy —King’s Worthy — The Nuns’ Walk | [123] |
| FIFTH DAY. | |
| The Cathedral — Early History — Dagon — St. Swithun — Æthelwold — The Vocal Cross — Ordeal of Fire —Walkelin — Renovation of the Cathedral — Civil War — Architecture — Nave — Isaak Walton — Relics andMonuments — De la Roche — Frescoes — Ethelmar —Crypt | [148] |
| SIXTH DAY. | |
| The Grenadier — Cathedral Library and Museum — TheDeanery — Pilgrim’s Hall — Precincts — Cheyney Court — Regulations of the Monastery — North side of theCathedral — Early decay of the City — St. Peter’s Street — Middle Brooks — Old Houses | [209] |
| SEVENTH DAY. | |
| Southgate Street — St. Cross — Dr. Lewis — Regulations —St. Catherine’s Hill | [243] |
| EIGHTH AND FOLLOWING DAYS. | |
| Ancient Britons — St. John’s Church — Magdalen Hospital — Punchbowl — Chilcombe — St. Peter’s Cheesehill —Twyford — Monoliths — Brambridge Avenue — Otterbourne — Compton — “Oliver’s Battery” — Hursley — Tombof Keble — Merdon Castle — Farley Mount — The HampageOak — Tichborne | [262] |
| INDEX | [297] |
[LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.]
[ROYAL WINCHESTER]
WANDERINGS IN AND ABOUT THE ANCIENT CAPITAL OF ENGLAND.