[LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.]

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[THE CATHEDRAL: WEST FRONT, WINCHESTER]Frontispiece
[WESTGATE]7
[CASTLE HALL]29
[THE EPITAPH OF DR HARPESFELDE]40
[SPARSHOLT CHURCH]45
[THE BUTTER CROSS AND PENTHOUSE]49
[ROYAL OAK PASSAGE]51
[THE OLD GUILDHALL]55
[THE GUILDHALL]67
[SOKE BRIDGE]77
[TOWERS AND SPIRES OF WINCHESTER]79
[KINGSGATE]90
[THE PORTER’S LODGE AND CHEYNEY COURT]92
[CHAMBER COURT]99
[THE CLOISTERS]103
[THE COLLEGE CHAPEL]111
[CORNER OF A COLLEGE STUDY]115
[THE TOWER OF THE COLLEGE CHAPEL FROM THE ITCHEN]121
[CNUT AND EMMA (ÆLFGYFU) PLACING THE CROSS AT HYDE]133
[WYKEHAM’S TOMB]167
[A FRAGMENT OF THE CHAPTER HOUSE]169
[IN THE NORTH TRANSEPT]177
[KING JAMES]181
[THE CHOIR FROM THE NAVE]187
[THE DEANERY]219
[THE PENTHOUSE]233
[MIDDLE BROOK]237
[THE CHURCH OF SAINT CROSS FROM THE WATER MEADOWS]245
[BEAUFORT TOWER, ST. CROSS]249
[ST. CATHERINE’S HILL FROM ST. CROSS]259
[ST. JOHN’S FROM A COTTAGE GARDEN]265
[CHILCOMBE CHURCH]270
[A CHILCOMBE TOMBSTONE]271
[ST. PETER’S CHEESEHILL FROM ABOVE THE STATION]273
[TWYFORD]278
[HURSLEY]285
[FARLEY MOUNT]288

[ROYAL WINCHESTER]

WANDERINGS IN AND ABOUT THE ANCIENT CAPITAL OF ENGLAND.

FIRST DAY.

Introduction — The High Street — The Castle — King Arthur — Historical Reminiscences — Executions — The Civil War — Charles II.’s Palace — The Westgate — Wyke — Littleton — Crawley — Lainston — Sparsholt.

“Would that the George Hotel had an old gable, or even an Elizabethan window,” I said to myself as I unshouldered my knapsack; “but perhaps the ordinary visitor thinks more of creature comforts than of artistic effects.”