Winchester Cathedral
The Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Swithun, commonly known as Winchester Cathedral, is the cathedral of the city of Winchester, England, and is among the largest of its kind in Northern Europe. The cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Winchester and is the mother church for the ancient Diocese of Winchester. It is run by a dean and chapter, under the Dean of Winchester.
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Quotes
[edit]- I learnt more during my school-days from my visits to the Cathedral at Winchester than I did from the hours of religious instruction in school. That great church with its tombs of the Saxon kings and the mediaeval statesmen-bishops gave one a greater sense of the magnitude of the religious element in our culture and the depths of its roots in our national life than anything one could learn from books.
- Christopher Dawson, Understanding Europe (Doubleday Image Books: 1960), pp. 223-24.
- Winchester Cathedral,
You're bringing me down
You stood and you watched as
My baby left town.- Primary verse fromThe New Vaudeville Band 1966 novelty song transatlantic hit.
External links
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Encyclopedic article on Winchester Cathedral on Wikipedia