E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Nick Kocharhook, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/c/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the many original illustrations. See 20346-h.htm or 20346-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/0/3/4/20346/20346-h/20346-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/0/3/4/20346/20346-h.zip) Transcriber's note: 1. Words and phrases which were italicized in the original have been surrounded by underscores ('_') in this version. Words or phrases which were in bold face have been surrounded by pound signs ('#'). 2. Inconsistencies in hyphenation or the spelling of proper names and dialect or obsolete word spellings have been left as they were in the original. THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF WINCHESTER A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by PHILIP W. SERGEANT Late Scholar of Trinity College, Oxford [Illustration: WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL FROM NORTH-WEST END OF CLOSE. _S.B. Bolas & Co., Photo._] [Illustration] With Fifty Illustrations London George Bell & Sons 1899 First Published, Jan. 1898 Second Edition, Revised 1899 W. H. White and Co. Limited Riverside Press, Edinburgh GENERAL PREFACE This series of monographs has been planned to supply visitors to the great English Cathedrals with accurate and well illustrated guide-books at a popular price. The aim of each writer has been to produce a work compiled with sufficient knowledge and scholarship to be of value to the student of Archaeology and History, and yet not too technical in language for the use of an ordinary visitor or tourist. To specify all the authorities which have been made use of in each case would be difficult and tedious in this place. But amongst the general sources of information which have been almost invariably found useful are:--(1) the great county histories, the value of which, especially in questions of genealogy and local records, is generally recognised; (2) the numerous papers by experts which appear from time to time in the Transactions of the Antiquarian and Archaeological Societies; (3) the important documents made accessible in the series issued by the Master of the Rolls; (4) the well-known works of Britton and Willis on the English Cathedrals; and (5) the very excellent series of Handbooks to the Cathedrals originated by the late Mr John Murray; to which the reader may in most cases be referred for fuller detail, especially in reference to the histories of the respective sees. GLEESON WHITE, E.F. STRANGE, _Editors of the Series._ PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION