Winchester Cathedral is a cathedral in Hampshire, England, begun under Bishop Walkelin to replace the Anglo-Saxon Old Minster. It has one of the longest naves of any Gothic cathedral in Europe, and its transepts and crypt remain from the Norman building. In the 14th century the nave was remodeled in the Perpendicular Gothic style under Bishop William of Wykeham. Winchester was the capital of Wessex and early England under Alfred the Great, and the cathedral houses the remains of Anglo-Saxon kings. The novelist Jane Austen is buried in the north aisle. Its library holds the Winchester Bible, a masterpiece of 12th-century illumination, and the crypt, which often floods, contains a statue, Sound II, by Antony Gormley.
Before and after
- from 1000 to 1300High Middle Ages
- from 10th century to 14th centurySeljuk dynasty
- from 1000 to 1200Rise of Romanesque art
- from 10th century to 20th centuryFoot binding
- 11th centuryConstruction of Winchester Cathedral
- from 11th century to 18th centuryHouse of Habsburg
- 11th centuryConstruction of Chora Church
- from 1005 to 1797Republic of Genoa
- 1006Construction of Gonbad-e Qabus
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The era
This moment belongs to the Medieval world (500 CE to 1500 CE), kingdoms, faiths and trade routes.