WINCHESTER
BY THE SAME AUTHOR AND ARTIST AS “WINCHESTER”
HAMPSHIRE
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[Illustration: TOWER OF THE COLLEGE CHAPEL, WINCHESTER
The graceful pinnacles of ‘Two Wardens Tower,’ as the tower of College
Chapel is called, forms a picturesque feature in all views of the
southeastern quarter of the city. Originally built by Warden Thurburn in
1488, it was rebuilt in 1863, in memory of two well-known later wardens,
Barter, Warden of Winchester, and Williams, Warden of New.
The view is taken from near Wharf Bridge.]
WINCHESTER
PAINTED BY
WILFRID BALL, R.E.
DESCRIBED BY
REV. TELFORD VARLEY, M.A., B.Sc.
[Illustration: colophon]
LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1910
Preface
The following volume treats in somewhat fuller detail the Winchester
sections of the larger work on Hampshire published last year under
similar auspices. Where much of the ground traversed is identical much
has been necessarily repeated, and a considerable portion of what
follows is little more than an amplification of what has been already
dealt with in the earlier volume.
The present work in no way aims at being a history, though much of it is
cast into a historical mould. Still less is it a guide-book. Its aim has
been selective, and it makes no pretence to completeness. In following
out some of the numerous avenues of Winchester interest, which seem to
open out continually in fresh and unsuspected directions as soon as one
commences to wander through her confines, many have received but a
cursory examination, and many more have been entirely ignored. The
author can only hope his readers will be able to accompany him with
pleasurable interest along those which inclination and circumstance have
led him to explore.
The authorities consulted have been numerous, and from the following
published sources of information, as well as many others, valuable
information has been obtained:--
Bede, _The English Chronicle_, The Winton Domesday, _The Liber de Hyda_,
Rudborne’s _Major Historia Wintoniae_, various of the _Annales
Monastici_, the valuable historical documents published some time back
by the Hampshire Record Society, Milner’s History, Mr. Kirby’s and Mr.
Leach’s volumes on Winchester College, Dean Kitchin’s _Winchester_ in
the Historic Towns Series, and Adams’s _Wykehamica_. The author regrets
that, through a _lapsus calami_, the title of Bramston and Leroy’s
_Historic Winchester_ was misapplied in the Hampshire volume to Dr.
Kitchin’s book. For this error he here apologises. Finally, the author
wishes here to express his thanks to many friends who in various ways
have assisted him in what has been to him a most pleasant task, viz.,
that of serving in some degree, though but inadequately, as chronicler
to his adopted city.
THE AUTHOR.
WINCHESTER, _June 1910_.
Contents
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CHAPTER I
‘WYNGESTER, THAT JOLY CITÈ’ 1