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7 unusual facts about Winchester Cathedral


Emmanuel Amand de Mendieta

After several years of teaching at various smaller colleges, he was named a canon of Winchester Cathedral.

Ironwork

Iron was used to protect doors and windows of valuable places from attack from raiders and was also used for decoration as can be seen at Canterbury Cathedral, Winchester Cathedral and Notre Dame de Paris.

Redvers Buller

There is a memorial to Buller, in the form of his recumbent effigy, in the north transept of Winchester Cathedral, England.

Richard of Normandy

He was taken from the forest and buried at Winchester Cathedral.

Robert Quinney

Prior to this he spent a year as Organ Scholar of Winchester Cathedral and Assistant Organist of Winchester College.

Saint Martial school

The only exception was Winchester Cathedral, where a systematic collection of organa can be found in the troper part—the so-called "Winchester Troper".

Small beer

Thomas Thetcher's tombstone at Winchester Cathedral features a poem that blames his death on drinking small beer while hot.


Charles William Dyson Perrins

Many other items from his collection were given or bequeathed by him to public institutions such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Gallery, the Ashmolean Museum, Winchester Cathedral library, and the British Museum.

Itchen Stoke and Ovington

The revenues from the manor at Ovington supported Itchen's nuns until 1284 when it was sold to the monks of St. Swithun's Priory, Winchester Cathedral; on the Dissolution of the monasteries, it was transferred to the newly formed Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral.

ITV Meridian

Meridian launched at midnight on 1 January 1993 with the programme Meridian – The First 10-Minutes a 10-minute outside broadcast from Winchester Cathedral presented by Debbie Thrower and previewing the station's forthcoming output.

James Humphries Hogan

Hogan designed windows for several cathedrals in England including Hereford Cathedral, Rochester Cathedral, Exeter Cathedral, Carlisle Cathedral and Winchester Cathedral.

Nigel Cornwall

He returned to England where he served as Commissary to the Bishop of Kuching, and as Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Winchester, and Canon Residentiary of Winchester Cathedral from 1963-73.

Thomas Glazier

There is a panel probably executed by him in the church of Thenford, Northamptonshire, as well as windows in Winchester Cathedral and the chapel of Merton College, Oxford.

William Buller

His first ecclesiastical appointments were as rector of Brightwell and canon of Winchester Cathedral.

Winchester Psalter

One of the Latin prayers is addressed to St Swithun, patron saint of Winchester Cathedral, whose relics were in the cathedral; the prayer mentions "sanctis quorum corpora in hac iuxta te requiescunt aula" (saints whose bodies rest in this church next to you)

Winchester Troper

One can be found in Oxford, in the Bodleian Library (MS Bodley 775), the other in Corpus Christi, Cambridge (MS473), but were copied out at, and originally used at Winchester Cathedral.


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Thomas Thetcher

He or she was very resourceful: I copied it from an inscription on a tombstone in the churchyard of Winchester Cathedral, and a military friend then quartered there informed me that a statement once appeared in Fraser's Magazine to the effect that the quatrain commencing "Here sleeps in peace," was written by Dr. Benjamin Hoadley, sometime Bishop of Winchester.