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[CHAPTER I]
‘Wyngester, That Joly Citè’[1]
[CHAPTER II]
Early Days[10]
[CHAPTER III]
The Roman Occupation[15]
[CHAPTER IV]
Saxon Winchester[20]
[CHAPTER V]
The Capital of England[26]
[CHAPTER VI]
Alfred[34]
[CHAPTER VII]
Alfred’s Death and Sixty Years after[43]
[CHAPTER VIII]
Æthelwold, Saint and Bishop[49]
[CHAPTER IX]
The Capital of the Danish Empire[59]
[CHAPTER X]
Norman Winchester[73]
[CHAPTER XI]
Later Norman Days[87]
[CHAPTER XII]
A Great Bishop, Henry of Blois[100]
[CHAPTER XIII]
Angevin and Plantagenet[109]
[CHAPTER XIV]
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century Winchester[117]
[CHAPTER XV]
The Monastic Life[130]
[CHAPTER XVI]
The Cathedral[146]
[CHAPTER XVII]
The College[158]
[CHAPTER XVIII]
Wolvesey—St. Cross—The Castle Hall—The Round
Table		[168]
[CHAPTER XIX]
Winchester in Literature[181]
[INDEX][197]

List of Illustrations

FACING PAGE
[1.][Tower of the College Chapel, Winchester][Frontispiece]
[2.][St. Catherine’s Hill, Winchester][9]
[3.][Shawford Mill][16]
[4.][The Weirs, Winchester][25]
[5.][Hamble][32]
[6.][At Itchen Abbas][41]
[7.][High Street, Winchester][48]
[8.][St. Peter’s, Cheesehill, Winchester][57]
[9.][Church of St. Cross][64]
[10.][King’s Gate, Winchester][73]
[11.][Martyr Worthy][80]
[12.][Watersplash at Itchen Stoke][89]
[13.][Easton][96]
[14.][The Deanery, Winchester][105]
[15.][Cheyney Court and Close Gate, Winchester][112]
[16.][Brewhouse, Winchester College][121]
[17.][Middle Gate, Winchester College][128]
[18.][Cloisters and Fromond’s Chantry, Winchester College][137]
[19.][Memorial Gateway, Winchester College][144]
[20.][Second Master’s House, Winchester College][153]
[21.][Tower of Ambulatory, Hospital of St. Cross, Winchester][160]
[22.][Church of St. Lawrence, Winchester][169]
[23.][Hursley Vicarage][176]
[24.][Winchester from St. Giles’s Hill][184]

WINCHESTER

CHAPTER I
‘WYNGESTER, THAT JOLY CITÈ’

Me lyketh ever, the lengerè the bet,
By Wyngester, that Joly citè.
The ton is god and wel y-set,
The folk is comely on to see;
The aier is god both inne and oute,
The citè stent under an hille;
The riverès renneth all aboute,
The ton is ruelèd upon skille.
Benedicamus Domino,
Alleluia,
Alleluia.
Fifteenth-century verses, De Walden MSS.

The magic of the city—whence comes it? Every people, every age has felt it, this mysterious sense of personality, this deep, alluring spell which age after age, nation after nation, has woven round the city of its dreams. Rome, Naples, Damascus, Mecca, Seville, each of these has been and still is a name to conjure with, while the long pent-up fervour of national feeling with which the Hebrew of old time invested the thought of Salem, the City of Peace, has from its very intensity and sincerity established it in the eyes of all Christendom as the permanent type of that New Jerusalem, the Heavenly City, the centre of all divine influence and of every divine appeal.