Winchester Cathedral

The cathedral has many of these Chantries. These are small chapels in which some bishop or other wealthy, important person paid to have prayers said over them. A bit like a private church within a church for the deceased to get prayed into heaven.

Winchester Cathedral - Continuing to Look Up

The brick laid out on the ground to one side of the cathedral shows the outline of the Anglo-Saxon church that was here before the Normans began building the impressive cathedral you see today.

Winchester Cathedral

On a dreary day (what? no sun in Britain in the winter?), we headed over to Winchester to have a look at the famous cathedral there. I suppose that I should break into a couple lines of the chorus here:

Winchester Cathedral, you're bringin' me downYou stood and you watched as my baby left town

But I won't.