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A MESSAGE FROM WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL

The building is closed for public worship and private prayer until at least 14 April. Unfortunately, live streaming of daily services from inside the Cathedral is ending. However, we intend to continue providing a special daily video reflection and prayer to watch every day. You can be assured of our prayers and you can post your own on our social media sites. May God bless you in these challenging times.

We hope to reopen as soon as possible. In the meantime this page shows events which have not yet been cancelled or postponed.

Featured Events

Kings & Scribes: The Birth of A Nation

THIS EXHIBITION IS CURRENTLY CLOSED.

Kings and Scribes: The Birth of a Nation unlock Winchester Cathedral's captivating stories and reveal some of the nation's greatest treasures.

Explore a spectacular three-level exhibition space in the South Transept which takes you on a journey through over 1,000 years of history, whilst offering awe-inspiring views of the Cathedral.

Calligraphy Workshop

Learn the art of calligraphy under the expert tuition of the Cathedral Scribes. The day will focus on studying the "Uncial" hand.

18th Apr 2020 Event Type: Activity

Gilbert White 1720-1793

This exhibition introduces Gilbert White’s science, writing, gardening and even Timothy his tortoise!

Art in the Cathedral

Winchester Cathedral is rich in art objects, including works by well-known artists, Peter Eugene Ball, Cecil Collins, Eric Gill, Antony Gormley and Justin Knowles, as well as local artists Sophie Hacker, Tim Harrisson, Alice Kettle, Tracey Sheppard - and many more. This Tour enables visitors to enjoy a close-up interaction with several of these works, within the context of this very special, time-honoured place.

Tours are free upon admission to the Cathedral but tickets must be booked through the Box Office. Available soon.

2nd May 2020 Event Type: Tour

VE DAY 75TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIONS

3.00pm – ‘Battle’s O’er’

A piper will play Battle’s O’er outside the West End of Winchester Cathedral as part of the national VE Day commemorations.

7.00pm – ‘Ringing out for Peace’

The Cathedral bell-ringers will join bell-ringers across the country to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, as the bells ring out in a collective celebration of peace.

8th May 2020 Event Type: Special Event

Wedding Fayre

Visit our sublimely dressed wedding venues, meet 15 local exhibitors and our experienced team.

Free entry and arrival drink!

10th May 2020 Event Type: Special Event

Big Sleep Out

Join Trinity Winchester for the Big Sleep Out, an eye opening night sleeping in the grounds of Winchester Cathedral, and raise money and awareness to reduce homelessness.

15th May 2020 Event Type: Special Event

Jane Austen: Her Life and Times

Jane Austen - Her Life and Times
Jane Austen died in Winchester in 1817, in rented rooms in College Street. She was buried in the north aisle of the Cathedral, probably arranged by her brother Henry who had been ordained shortly before her death. This tour offers visitors an intimate and often amusing insight into her life and connections with the Cathedral.

Tours are free upon admission to the Cathedral but tickets must be booked through the Box Office. Available soon.

16th May 2020 Event Type: Tour

London Concertante – Vivaldi Four Seasons by candlelight

London Concertante enjoys an available position in the world of classical music where it is regarded as one of the finest chamber ensembles in Europe - a position it has spent the last 28 years striving to maintain. Begun in 1991, the ensemble quickly garnered praise both here and abroad and now gives around 100 concerts a year all over the world.

22nd May 2020 Event Type: Concert

Half-Term Family Fun

Pick up a themed trail from the Entrance Desk and explore the Cathedral, followed by craft activities. Free on entry to the Cathedral – admission is free for under 16s. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

27th May 2020 Event Type: Family

Pentecostal Cycle Pilgrimage to Romsey

Join Canon Roly on a 11-mile cycling trip from the Cathedral’s West Front to Romsey Abbey where at 4pm Sophie will interpret her recently installed window to commemorate the birth of Florence Nightingale, 200 years ago in May. Explore the Abbey and join Evening Prayer, if you can stay, at 5.30pm.

30th May 2020 Event Type: Faith

Stone Festival

The Stone Festival returns to Winchester Cathedral, with an exciting programme of events and activities celebrating the art of stone masonry.

Saturday Tours – 6 June

Choose from:

Hidden Places… Higher Spaces… From the Crypt to the Nave ... Our Cathedral's Wartime Legacy

On this tour we will visit three areas of the Cathedral and show you how our Cathedral was at the heart of every conflict in its history. We will learn what was happening there when wars took place, how we reacted, and how we remember our dead.

We will visit the ancient Crypt, the longest medieval nave in Europe and go up into the roof space with its 18 miles of wooden beams. What secrets do they hold? What wartime stories can they tell? What legacy have they left to us?

You will go away refreshed, invigorated and with new enthusiasm for a city whose Cathedral embodies the best of times, the worst of times ...a beacon to mankind.

Please note this tour includes steep steps up into the roof space.

Just Williams
Learn about the many illustrious and or some cases lesser-known men called William who have played significant roles in the history of the cathedral.

Tours are free upon admission to the Cathedral but tickets must be booked through the Box Office. Available soon.

6th Jun 2020 Event Type: Tour

Kimberley James: ‘Gilbert White: The Outdoor Naturalist’

On the 300th anniversary of Gilbert White's birth, Kimberley James, Collections Manager at Selborne House, takes a look into the life of this pioneering naturalist, ecologist, writer and clergyman, from a small Hampshire village, who changed the way we look at the natural world.

Tickets £5 or£7 on the door, if available.

9th Jun 2020 Event Type: Lecture

Music Outreach Celebration

A joyful culmination of Winchester Cathedral’s music outreach programme, bringing together over 200 pupils from local schools to celebrate in song. A free event – parents and guardians are especially welcome.

10th Jun 2020 Event Type: Concert

Basingstoke Choral Society Concert

Duruflé: Requiem

Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna

Poulenc: Organ Concerto

Conductor: David Gibson

13th Jun 2020 Event Type: Concert

Keith Betton: ‘The Peregrines in Winchester’

Following last year’s hugely popular introduction to the peregrine falcons nesting on the Cathedral, County Ornithologist Keith Betton provides a progress report on this year’s activity.

A team of Peregrine watchers with telescopes will also be on hand to try and show you the birds perched up on the Cathedral roof.

Image: Irma Eady

14th Jun 2020 Event Type: Lecture

Jane Austen: Her Life and Times

Tours are free upon admission to the Cathedral but tickets must be booked through the Box Office. Available soon.

20th Jun 2020 Event Type: Tour

Father’s Day BBQ

Treat the father in your life to a delicious BBQ.

21st Jun 2020 Event Type: Family

Cathedrals at Night

Come to be part of a nationwide initiative encouraging people to experience the significance and spirituality of these sacred buildings, using music, lighting and special activities.

26th Jun 2020 Event Type: Special Event

Waynflete Singers: Beethoven’s ‘Missa Solemnis’

In the 250th anniversary year of his birth, the Waynflete Singers will perform Beethoven's last choral masterpiece in their own golden anniversary year.

UNFORTUNATELY IT HAS BEEN NECESSARY TO CANCEL THIS EVENT.

This Royal House of Saxon Kings and Saints

The Anglo Saxon Minster and its role in the birth of the English nation, the personalities who inhabited it and the traces which are still visible today. Part of this tour is outside on slightly uneven ground, suitable clothing and footwear should be worn.

Tours are free upon admission to the Cathedral but tickets must be booked through the Box Office. Available soon.

4th Jul 2020 Event Type: Tour

Wednesday Evening Special Tours

On Wednesday 8 July, between 6pm & 7.30pm we will be running a special evening of tours.

Choose from:

Literary Links
This Royal House of Saxon Kings and Saints
From Vision to Reality – The Architecture and Building of the Cathedral
Jane Austen: Her Life and Times
Just Williams
The Victorian Story: Vision, Virtue and Infamy
Pestilence Penitence & Putrefaction: A Medical History of Winchester Cathedral

All evening tours are £10 from the Box Office. Available Soon.

8th Jul 2020 Event Type: Festival

Wednesday Tours – 8 July

1030am Stained Glass
A relatively unexplored cathedral treasure. Bring binoculars for best viewing. Winchester Cathedral offers the opportunity to study glass from the workshops of medieval masters of the 14th, 15th and early 16th century and to follow the enthusiastic Victorian revival and the Arts and Crafts movement to the present day.

1.30pm Art in the Cathedral
Winchester Cathedral is rich in art objects, including works by well-known artists, Peter Eugene Ball, Cecil Collins, Eric Gill, Antony Gormley and Justin Knowles, as well as local artists Sophie Hacker, Tim Harrisson, Alice Kettle, Tracey Sheppard - and many more. This Tour enables visitors to enjoy a close-up interaction with several of these works, within the context of this very special, time-honoured place.

Tours are free upon admission to the Cathedral but tickets must be booked through the Box Office. Available soon.

8th Jul 2020 Event Type: Tour

SCF 2020

UNFORTUNATELY THE SOUTHERN CATHEDRALS FESTIVAL HAS BEEN POSTPONED FOR THIS YEAR.

The Intention is that it should be held in Winchester next year.

More information will appear at:

southerncathedralsfestival.org.uk

Wednesday Tour – 22 July

Dynamic Deans

Winchester Cathedral Deans – innovators, game changers, courageous, financial wizards, inspirational, driven: Dynamic Men. Unsung heroes throughout the ages.

The tour focuses on some whose works and state-of-the-art changes had a major impact on our cathedral, and on their relations with Winchester people; not always smooth!

Tours are free upon admission to the Cathedral but tickets must be booked through the Box Office. Available soon.

22nd Jul 2020 Event Type: Tour

Wednesday Tours – 29 July

1030am Art in the Cathedral
Winchester Cathedral is rich in art objects, including works by well-known artists, Peter Eugene Ball, Cecil Collins, Eric Gill, Antony Gormley and Justin Knowles, as well as local artists Sophie Hacker, Tim Harrisson, Alice Kettle, Tracey Sheppard - and many more. This Tour enables visitors to enjoy a close-up interaction with several of these works, within the context of this very special, time-honoured place.

1.30pm This Royal House of Saxon Kings and Saints
The Anglo Saxon Minster and its role in the birth of the English nation, the personalities who inhabited it and the traces which are still visible today. Part of this tour is outside on slightly uneven ground, suitable clothing and footwear should be worn.

Tours are free upon admission to the Cathedral but tickets must be booked through the Box Office. Available soon.

29th Jul 2020 Event Type: Tour

From Vision to Reality: The Architecture and Building of the Cathedral

Follow the evolution of this monumental Norman cathedral through the subsequent development of the medieval period to the Reformation and early Renaissance. Learn about the many different styles of architecture and the extraordinary achievements of the builders in creating this magnificent cathedral.

Tours are free upon admission to the Cathedral but tickets must be booked through the Box Office. Available soon.

1st Aug 2020 Event Type: Tour

Wednesday Tours – 5 August

1.30pm Curious and Mysterious

Mystifying Cathedral puzzles or secrets, ancient and modern, will be revealed on this tour. The tour covers mysteries spanning some 700 years, often obscured by the mists of time. A range of delights are featured, such as moving tombs, an unofficial high profile burial, First World War personal benevolence with world changing results, disasters at sea and “what’s in a name”.

1.30pm Face The Music

Face the music includes background musical history and examines aspects of music with in the Cathedral. There are three types of visual clues: firstly, images in stone, wood, glass and embroidery reflecting 'heavenly harmony'; secondly memorials and graffiti referring to specific musical personalities; and thirdly, places and objects with musical functions such as organ or the Treasury.

Tours are free upon admission to the Cathedral but tickets must be booked through the Box Office. Available soon.

5th Aug 2020 Event Type: Tour

Wednesday Tours – 12 August

10.30am Stained Glass
A relatively unexplored cathedral treasure. Bring binoculars for best viewing. Winchester Cathedral offers the opportunity to study glass from the workshops of medieval masters of the 14th, 15th and early 16th century and to follow the enthusiastic Victorian revival and the Arts and Crafts movement to the present day.

1.30pm Literary Links

Tours are free upon admission to the Cathedral but tickets must be booked through the Box Office. Available soon.

Jane Austen: Her Life and Times

Tours are free upon admission to the Cathedral but tickets must be booked through the Box Office. Available soon.

15th Aug 2020 Event Type: Tour

Wednesday Tours – 26 August

10.30am Art in The Cathedral
Winchester Cathedral is rich in art objects, including works by well-known artists, Peter Eugene Ball, Cecil Collins, Eric Gill, Antony Gormley and Justin Knowles, as well as local artists Sophie Hacker, Tim Harrisson, Alice Kettle, Tracey Sheppard - and many more. This Tour enables visitors to enjoy a close-up interaction with several of these works, within the context of this very special, time-honoured place.

1.30pm From Vision to Reality:
The Architecture and Building of the Cathedral

Winchester Cathedral contains fine examples of all the main styles of ecclesiastical architecture which will all be seen and explained in some detail. In addition, the tour will describe the construction methods used in medieval times and how Bishop Walkelin achieved the amazing feat of completing most of the original building in just 14 years.

Tours are free upon admission to the Cathedral but tickets must be booked through the Box Office. Available soon.

26th Aug 2020 Event Type: Tour

Wednesday Tour – 2 September

Cathedral Women
Famous, reforming, talented, artistic, professional, all at the top of their fields – our latest selection introduces more cathedral personalities.

Tours are free upon admission to the Cathedral but tickets must be booked through the Box Office. Available soon.

2nd Sep 2020 Event Type: Friends

This Royal House of Saxon Kings and Saints

Tours are free upon admission to the Cathedral but tickets must be booked through the Box Office. Available soon.

5th Sep 2020 Event Type: Tour

Wednesday Tours – 9 September

10.30am Green Men

The term “Green Men” was only brought into use in 1939, but their existence goes back many years and actually predates Christianity. They are a carver’s device, rarely found in glass or in illuminated manuscripts and they were particularly popular in the 14th century. There are over 70 examples in the Cathedral although some are difficult to spot, and on the tour we shall look at several different types of Green Men, including one for which Winchester is rightly famous.

1.30pm Dynamic Deans
Winchester Cathedral Deans – innovators, game changers, courageous, financial wizards, inspirational, driven: Dynamic Men. Unsung heroes throughout the ages.

The tour focuses on some whose works and state-of-the-art changes had a major impact on our cathedral, and on their relations with Winchester people; not always smooth!

Tours are free upon admission to the Cathedral but tickets must be booked through the Box Office. Available soon.

9th Sep 2020 Event Type: Tour

Hidden Places…Higher Spaces

Hidden Places… Higher Spaces… From the Crypt to the Nave ... Our Cathedral's Wartime Legacy

You will go away refreshed, invigorated and with new enthusiasm for a city whose Cathedral embodies the best of times, the worst of times ...a beacon to mankind.

Please note this tour includes steep steps up into the roof space.

Tours are free upon admission to the Cathedral but tickets must be booked through the Box Office. Available soon.

19th Sep 2020 Event Type: Tour

Wednesday Tour – 30 September

1.30pm Heroes and Villains
Who fled the cathedral in a dung-cart? Who refused lodgings to Charles II’s “trollop”? Who owned the hoof of a griffin? Find out about the great, the good and the occasionally ghastly men whose fascinating stories are told in this tour.

Tours are free upon admission to the Cathedral but tickets must be booked through the Box Office. Available soon.

30th Sep 2020 Event Type: Tour

Saturday Tours – 3 October

Choose from:

From Vision to Reality: the Architecture and building of the Cathedral

Wood Glorious Wood
This tour explores the exceptional riches of the Cathedral's woodwork, ancient and modern. It considers the indispensable role of wood in the construction and preservation of the building and we discover wood furnishings and decoration as far back as the 12th century. The highlight of the tour is a look in some detail at one of the Cathedral's greatest treasures, the 14th century quire stalls, described as "the most beautiful in Northern Europe".

Tours are free upon admission to the Cathedral but tickets must be booked through the Box Office. Available soon.

3rd Oct 2020 Event Type: Tour

Aled Jones

Join Aled Jones for a special concert at Winchester Cathedral as he embarks on a UK-wide tour, performing at many of the nation’s best-loved cathedrals.

15th Oct 2020 Event Type: Festival

Hidden Places…Higher Spaces

Hidden Places… Higher Spaces… From the Crypt to the Nave ... Our Cathedral's Wartime Legacy

You will go away refreshed, invigorated and with new enthusiasm for a city whose Cathedral embodies the best of times, the worst of times ...a beacon to mankind.

Please note this tour includes steep steps up into the roof space.

Tours are free upon admission to the Cathedral but tickets must be booked through the Box Office. Available soon.

17th Oct 2020 Event Type: Festival

Wednesday Tour – 21 October

1.30pm Art in the Cathedral

Tours are free upon admission to the Cathedral but tickets must be booked through the Box Office. Available soon.

21st Oct 2020 Event Type: Tour

Wednesday Tour – 28 October

1.30pm Jane Austen: Her lIfe and times
Jane Austen died in Winchester in 1817, in rented rooms in College Street. She was buried in the north aisle of the Cathedral, probably arranged by her brother Henry who had been ordained shortly before her death. This tour offers visitors an intimate and often amusing insight into her life and connections with the Cathedral.

Tours are free upon admission to the Cathedral but tickets must be booked through the Box Office. Available soon.

28th Oct 2020 Event Type: Tour

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Featured Events

Kings & Scribes: The Birth of A Nation

Calligraphy Workshop

Gilbert White 1720-1793

Art in the Cathedral

VE DAY 75TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIONS

Wedding Fayre

Big Sleep Out

Jane Austen: Her Life and Times

London Concertante – Vivaldi Four Seasons by candlelight

Half-Term Family Fun

Pentecostal Cycle Pilgrimage to Romsey

Stone Festival

Saturday Tours – 6 June

Kimberley James: ‘Gilbert White: The Outdoor Naturalist’

Music Outreach Celebration

Basingstoke Choral Society Concert

Keith Betton: ‘The Peregrines in Winchester’

Jane Austen: Her Life and Times

Father’s Day BBQ

Cathedrals at Night

Waynflete Singers: Beethoven’s ‘Missa Solemnis’

This Royal House of Saxon Kings and Saints

Wednesday Evening Special Tours

Wednesday Tours – 8 July

SCF 2020

Wednesday Tour – 22 July

Wednesday Tours – 29 July

From Vision to Reality: The Architecture and Building of the Cathedral

Wednesday Tours – 5 August

Wednesday Tours – 12 August

Jane Austen: Her Life and Times

Wednesday Tours – 26 August

Wednesday Tour – 2 September

This Royal House of Saxon Kings and Saints

Wednesday Tours – 9 September

Hidden Places…Higher Spaces

Wednesday Tour – 30 September

Saturday Tours – 3 October

Aled Jones

Hidden Places…Higher Spaces

Wednesday Tour – 21 October

Wednesday Tour – 28 October

Jane Austen's Grave

Guided Tours

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