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Winchester Cathedral is possibly the only cathedral to have had popular songs written about it. "Winchester Cathedral" was a UK top ten hit and a US number one song for The New Vaudeville Band in 1966. The cathedral was also the subject of the Crosby, Stills & Nash song "Cathedral" from their 1977 album CSN.
Whall completed three windows in the Cathedral's Apse. [3] Winchester Cathedral: Winchester, Hampshire: In the East Aisle of the Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre, Whall completed a window which was a memorial to Edward Bligh who was killed at Gallipoli in 1915. The window depicts St George, St Michael and St Hubert.
"Winchester Cathedral" is a song by the New Vaudeville Band, a British novelty group established by the song's composer, Geoff Stephens, and was released in late 1966 by Fontana Records. It reached number 1 in Canada on the RPM 100 chart, co-charting with the Dana Rollin version, [5] and shortly thereafter in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100 ...
The Shaftesbury Bowl from Winchester Cathedral, a late 10th century glass jar found in front of the High Altar at Shaftesbury Abbey, which may have contained the heart of King Canute, who died at Shaftesbury c. 1035 but was buried in Winchester. It is the only complete piece of late Saxon glass in England.
A cathedral nave has been transformed to replicate life underwater in a new art installation. The exhibition features whales hanging from the ceiling of Winchester Cathedral.
R.W.B. Hornby memorial window at York Minster. Charles Kempe was born at Ovingdean Hall, near Brighton, East Sussex in 1837. He was the youngest son of Nathaniel Kemp (1759–1843), a cousin of Thomas Read Kemp, a politician and property developer responsible for the Kemptown area of Brighton [1] [note 1] and the maternal grandson of Sir John Eamer, who served as Lord Mayor of London in 1801.
Durst carvings in Winchester Cathedral. Durst carried out some carving on the memorial in Winchester Cathedral in Hampshire to Canon Bertram Kier Cunningham, this memorial completed in 1944. The carving was shown at the Royal Academy in 1942 before going to Winchester. It can be found in the east aisle in front of the tablet to Mary Pescod.
In 1389-90 he was repairing Winchester Castle, from 1392 he designed Wardour Castle, and in the 1390s [7] he commenced his last major work, the remodelling of the Norman nave of Winchester Cathedral in the latest Perpendicular Gothic style.