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Identifier: newenglandmagazi1900bost (find matches)
Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL. The city of Winchester was farmore busy and populous then thannow. Round about the whole werethe old walls of the Romans, stillstrong and high. The civil war be-tween Stephen and Matilda in themiddle of the twelfth century broughtmuch trouble and commotion to Win-chester. It was occupied by each
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WAYNFLETE CHANTRY. contending faction in turn. On oneoccasion, tradition says, Matilda wasforced to feigning death and be-ing carried out on a litter for burial,in order to escape a besieging army.As a royal residence the town nowlost much of its importance, althoughthe royal treasury was still kept there.Richard Lion-Heart found valuablesthere on his accession worth ninehundred thousand pounds. From these brief notes we maylearn how closely Winchester town,and of course Winchester cathedral,were always connected with the lead-ing events of early English history.Here, too, the student of architecturemay find interesting and varied ex-amples of English work, from theSaxon piers in the crypt to the lateGothic of thechantries and theLady-Chapel. Hewill find there abuilding solidand substantial,simple and grand.It may safelybe asserted thatfor dignity andmassive grandeurthe exterior ofWinchester willhold its ownamong Englishcathedrals; andyet as we enterthe cathedralclose by the nar-row p

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