The Balkan Bandits

at Boomtown Festival 2012

to kick off the festival

Winchester Cathedral-font and reformation

gorgeous black marble 12th cen font

check out the bullet hole in Edward's collar

Winchester Cathedral Crypt

Henley-on-the-Thames in Bright Sunlight

Main Square

the Thames (missed the regatta by a week)

I spy Tudor housing

Winchester Cathedral-Mortuary Chests

and for those who were bishop before chapels-there are mortuary chests dating between 600-1000s

Winchester Cathedral-Bishop's Chapels

scattered throughout the retrochoir are tons of bishop's chapels

some with their Roman Catholic red robes

loved this vaulting

Winchester Cathedral-Retrochoir (13th cen)

btw, 12th cen tomb

charming 13th cen retrochoir icons

medieval tiles

Winchester Cathedral-aisles to to the retrochoir

probably about 16th cen

a peek into the choir

a peek into a chapel

polychrome on those ribs

Winchester Cathedral-Guardian Angels Chapel

vault painting dated to c1240

Winchester Cathedral-Holy Sepulchre Chapel

12th century wall paintings!

even on the arches

Winchester Cathedral-Choir

carved screen

looking towards the nave from within the 12th cen choir

vaulting

vaulting from the quire

great altar screen

carving

Winchester Cathedral-Transepts

a lovely later tomb

good austere 11th century transepts

Winchester Cathedral-the nave

an aisle

vaulting

So you're standing in the c1340 nave looking towards the older bits

Winchester Cathedral-Exteriors

We loved this cathedral-utterly enchanted. This solidly English cathedral is heavy, short, and very very solid from the outside and almost austere. The interior shows the benefit of centuries of royal patronage.

our approach

the stubby towers

old cloisters

flying buttresses

main facade

University of Winchester

Town Hall

a monumental Victorian edifice

gives you all of the important information

the polychrome brick arches of the porch