The church has a neat square tower, containing |six bells. The market is on Wednesday. | 62|WINCHESTER, Hants, 77, 84, 85. This city is situated on the banks |of the river Itchen, containing 1134 houses, and 6705 inhabitants. |Most of the buildings have an appearance of antiquity, and the |streets are broad, and remarkably clean. It is about half a mile |long, a mile and a half in compass, and contains eight churches. | |The present cathedral was began in the 11th century, by Bishop |Walkelyn, but was in part rebuilt by Bishop Wickham, in 1394. The |length of this magnificent fabric is 545 feet, including the |chapel of our lady, 54 feet, and the choir 136. The height of the |tower is 138 feet; but it appears, from the abrupt manner of its |termination, never to have been finished. The altar-screen is |thought by many even superior to that of St. Alban’s. The entrance |into the choir is by a noble flight of steps, the breadth of the |middle aisle. On each side of the great arch of the entrance are |recesses, wherein are placed the statues of King James and Charles |the First, cast in copper. | |The cross, from north to south, is divided from the choir by |wooden partitions, carried up to a vast height. The stalls in the |choir are of fine Gothic workmanship, but the Bishop’s throne is |inferior to the rest. The stone screen, where the high altar is |placed, is a neat and delicate piece of Gothic work. | |At the west end of the church is a painted window, representing |the history of the Old Testament, but much defaced. At the east |end is also a window with paintings. For many years this church |was the place for the coronation of our kings. | |The east end of the church is terminated by three chapels; that on |the south is called Bishop Langton’s Chapel, of curious carved |work, containing several elegant tombs. In the Chapel of our Lady, |King Philip and Queen Mary were married. | |The new college of this city was founded by William of Wickham. |The building consists of two large courts, the first containing |suits of apartments for the warden, ten fellows, seventy scholars, |three chaplains, six choristers, masters, &c. In the centre is an |elegant chapel. In the second court are the schools, and a long |cloister and enclosures for the diversion of the scholars. In the |middle of the cloisters is the library, a strong stone building. |Over the door of the school is a statue of the founder. Contiguous |to the college, on the west, is a spacious quadrangular building, |forming a detached school for commoners, or gentlemen not on the |foundation, under the immediate care of the head master. | |The mother church of Winchester is _St. Lawrence_; it consists of