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Take a look at our featured upcoming events listed below, or search all events by clicking here.

You can also download our full programme of events for January – June 2019.

Featured Events

Kings & Scribes: The Birth of A Nation

NOW OPEN

A permanent exhibition in the South Transept.

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

Be one of the first to explore a spectacular three-level exhibition space in the South Transept which will take visitors on a journey through over 1,000 years of history, whilst offering awe-inspiring views of the Cathedral.

Southampton Philharmonic – Verdi’s Requiem

Southampton Philharmonic Choir with Southampton University Philharmonic Choir performs Verdi's Requiem, a work unashamedly theatrical in style, in which moments of great tenderness and simplicity are juxtaposed with passages of the most powerful and thrilling intensity. Performing with them under the baton of David Gibson are the New London Sinfonia.

22nd Jun 2019 Event Type: Concert

Return of the Peregrine

2.00pm and 3.30pm, Wessex Centre

SOLD OUT

Join Keith Betton, Chairman and County Recorder of the Hampshire Ornithological Society, to learn more about Peregrines in this beautifully illustrated talk. Afterwards, he and a team of volunteers will look for where Winchester Cathedral's Peregrines are perched and will use high-powered optical equipment to show them to attendees.

23rd Jun 2019 Event Type: Lecture

Stanford Chamber Chorale

Hailed as one of America's top collegiate ensembles, the Stanford Chamber Chorale is Stanford University's most select choir.

This concert forms part of their 2019 UK concert tour and will feature works by J. S. Bach, Vaughan Williams, Byrd and Jonathan Dove.

This is a free event however a ticket is required. Tickets can be booked online or via the Cathedral Box Office 01962 857275.

24th Jun 2019 Event Type: Concert

Lunchtime Recital – Wells Cathedral School Music Scholars

Join us in the wonderful setting of the Quire for a recital by Wells Cathedral School Music Scholars.

Lunchtime recitals are free to attend. A retiring collection will be taken to help defray costs.

25th Jun 2019 Event Type: Concert

Lunchtime Recital: Carolyn Craig (Organ)

Join us in the wonderful setting of the Quire for a recital from organist, Carolyn Craig.

Lunchtime recitals are free to attend. A retiring collection will be taken to help defray costs.

2nd Jul 2019 Event Type: Concert

Recovering Forgotten Lives, The Historians Task Today – Professor Roger Richardson

Traditionally, history has been a top-down, 'snobbish' subject interested chiefly in leaders of different kinds. Now, however, historians are bringing to life those in the past who have been ignored or neglected - among them women, workers of all kinds and children.

2nd Jul 2019 Event Type: Lecture

Wednesday Tours: Jane Austen – Her Life and Times

Throughout July, August and September we have a number of free* specialist subject tours lead by our expert guides. These tours are perfect for those who want to dig deeper into the Cathedral’s thousand- year history.

For this tour, our expert guides take you through the life and times of Jane Austen and to see her final resting place in the North Nave Aisle of the Cathedral.

3rd Jul 2019 Event Type: Tour

Refectory: Best of British Wine and Food Tasting Event

Join us at the Garden Marquee for this exclusive event, celebrating exquisite locally sourced produce paired with English sparkling wine from Exton Park Vineyard.

4th Jul 2019 Event Type: Other

Winchester Hat Fair – Children’s Parade

Join us for the Children's Parade in the Outer Close of the Cathedral. For more information please visit www.hatfair.co.uk

5th Jul 2019 Event Type: Festival

Winchester Hat Fair – Ghost Caribou

A nightmare street procession of giant illuminated creatures.

5th Jul 2019 Event Type: Festival

Winchester Festival: Opening Concert

Winchester Cathedral Chamber Choir, making its debut at the Festival, presents a concert of Iberian-themed choral music. Featuring guitarist Joseph Ingle, the programme includes 20th Century Spanish composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Romancero Gitano, with its settings of poems by Lorca evoking the landscapes, people and culture of Andalucia. Alongside this will be masterpieces by composers from Spain and Portugal, and music that emerged from their New World colonies in the 16th and 17th Centuries, fusing the culmination of late Renaissance European music with indigenous and Creole influences.

5th Jul 2019 Event Type: Festival

Tour and Tea – 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 choirstalls, described as "the most beautiful in Northern Europe".

6th Jul 2019 Event Type: Tour

Jane Austen – Tour and Tea

Jane Austen died in Winchester in 1817, in rented rooms in College Street. She was buried in the north aisle of the Cathedral. This tour offers visitors an intimate and often amusing insight into her life and connections with the Cathedral.

6th Jul 2019 Event Type: Tour

Winchester Hat Fair

The UK’s longest continually running festival of Outdoor Arts.
For more information please visit www.hatfair.co.uk

6th Jul 2019 Event Type: Festival

Winchester Festival: A Fruitful Season – Keats in Winchester

The premiere performance of A Fruitful Season

John Keats is one of England’s favourite poets. In these performances, 2TimeTheatre presents a play for voices by Cecily O’Neill, celebrating Keats’ visit to Winchester in 1819.

6th Jul 2019 Event Type: Festival

Winchester Festival: Charles Spencer

To Catch a King

In this talk, bestselling author and historian Earl Spencer recounts the true story of one of the greatest escapes in British history.

6th Jul 2019 Event Type: Festival

Winchester Festival: Hampshire County Youth String Orchestra

The Hampshire County Youth Orchestra presents a string event concentrating on the Concerto Grosso form. The performers will include young string players from all over Hampshire.

6th Jul 2019 Event Type: Concert

Winchester Festival: Royal Choral Society

The Festival is delighted to welcome one of London’s great choirs for a stirring programme featuring three giants of English music from the turn of the 20th Century. Choir and orchestra join forces for two works guaranteed to fill the Cathedral with thrilling sounds. A rare outing for the full-scale version of Parry’s coronation anthem is paired with Vaughan Williams’ choral symphony, while alongside sits Elgar’s ever-popular portrayal of some of his close friends.

6th Jul 2019 Event Type: Concert

Winchester Festival: A Fruitful Season – Keats in Winchester

John Keats is one of England’s favourite poets. In these performances, 2TimeTheatre presents a play for voices by Cecily O’Neill, celebrating Keats’ visit to Winchester in 1819.

Based on Keats’ letters and poems, the script includes delightful descriptions of Winchester and of the writing of his most popular poem Ode to Autumn. It traces Keats’ obsessive love for his ‘Bright Star’ Fanny Brawne, his attempts to write a successful tragedy with his friend Charles Armitage Brown, and his increasing ill health. Performed by professional actors, and with original music, the play is introduced by Professor Christopher Mulvey.

7th Jul 2019 Event Type: Other

Winchester Festival: Festival Evensong

Preacher: The Rev’d Canon Jonathan Thomas Boardman Vicar of St Paul’s Church, Clapham

E W Naylor Canticles in A
Parry Lord, let me know mine end

Sung by the Girl Choristers and Lay Clerks of Winchester Cathedral Choir.

7th Jul 2019 Event Type: Faith

Winchester Festival: Max Hastings

Vietnam: An Epic History of a Tragic War

Max Hastings ambitiously re-tells the story of the Vietnamese war with the benefit of vivid personal memories: firstly reporting in 1967–68 from the United States, then through successive assignments in Indochina for newspapers and BBC TV.

7th Jul 2019 Event Type: Lecture

Winchester Festival: Wessex Sinfonietta

The Wessex Sinfonietta is one of Hampshire’s leading chamber orchestras. This evening’s concert includes Weber’s Horn Concertino, a virtuosic piece which includes four-part chords and explores the extremes of the instrument’s range.

The concert will open with the rich colours of Brahms’ St. Anthony Variations, a work performed too infrequently, and close with Beethoven’s Symphony No.7, one of his most exhilarating works, described by Wagner as ‘the apotheosis of the dance’.

7th Jul 2019 Event Type: Concert

Open Chapter

Wessex Centre

An informal opportunity for members of the community roll to meet and talk with Chapter members.

Open Chapter dates 2019

Monday 8 July
Wednesday 23 October
Wednesday 4 December

8th Jul 2019 Event Type: Other

Winchester Festival: Lunchtime Recital

Matthew Crisp violin
Irina Lyakhovskaya piano

Janáček Violin Sonata
Schubert Rondo in B minor, D.895
Turnage Four Chants
Rebecca Clarke Midsummer Moon

Supported by The Friends of Music in Winchester

The piano for the lunchtime series is kindly loaned by Triangle Pianos Ltd. of Southampton.

8th Jul 2019 Event Type: Concert

Winchester Festival: Nina Campbell

Nina Campbell in Conversation with Giles Kime

Nina Campbell is one of the foremost interior designers today and her work exemplifies the best of English interior design. Here she looks back on her almost fifty-year career with Giles Kime, Hampshire resident and Interiors Editor of Country Life.

8th Jul 2019 Event Type: Lecture

Winchester Festival: Frank Gardner

In this compelling talk, BBC Security Correspondent, Frank Gardner, recounts his own personal story of survival combined with his intimate knowledge of Middle Eastern history and politics.

8th Jul 2019 Event Type: Lecture

Winchester Festival: Jane and John visit Winchester

A walk with Jane Austen and John Keats

Winchester Tourist Guides present a walk through Regency Winchester to mark the 200th anniversary of the visit of John Keats to the city in 1819, and of Jane Austen’s death here in 1817, with quotes from their works and letters read by 'Georgian' players along the way.

Winchester Festival: Castalian Quartet

In a world full of fine ensembles, the Castalian Quartet has been noted as ‘the new force to be reckoned with’. This is reflected in demand from festivals worldwide, and in the numerous awards the ensemble has won. They bring their special talent to the delightful ambience of St Cross Church in a programme focused on the early decades of the string quartet genre.

9th Jul 2019 Event Type: Concert

Lunchtime Recital: Paul Turner (Piano)

Join us in the wonderful setting of the Quire for a recital from Pianist, Paul Turner.

Lunchtime recitals are free to attend. A retiring collection will be taken to help defray costs.

9th Jul 2019 Event Type: Festival

Winchester Festival: Lunchtime Recital

George Rowley

British pianist George Rowley is quickly establishing himself as one of the most exciting young musicians in the country. Join him for an exciting programme of Beethoven and Chopin for his Lunchtime Recital at St Lawerence Church.

9th Jul 2019 Event Type: Concert

Winchester Festival: Sir Chris Bonington

Sir Chris Bonington in conversation with Jim McNeil

9th Jul 2019 Event Type: Lecture

Winchester Festival: Lunchtime Recital

The lunchtime recital by students from the Hampshire Specialist Music Course is always eagerly anticipated; for the seventh year, students from the HSMC at Peter Symonds will bring chamber repertoire to the Festival, showcasing the outstanding talents of the young performers, accompanied by Samantha Carrasco, Head of Keyboard.

10th Jul 2019 Event Type: Concert

Winchester Festival: Andrew Marr

The History of Modern Britain

Andrew Marr is one of the most familiar reporters, journalists, presenters and interviewers on television. He is the host of the weekly BBC1 programme The Andrew Marr Show as well as the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week. Previously, he was Political Editor at BBC News.

Join him at the Winchester Guildhall for his talk on the History of Modern Britain.

10th Jul 2019 Event Type: Lecture

Wednesday Tour: 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 (and one woman) whose fascinating stories are told in this tour.

Tour times: 10.30AM – 11.30AM

10th Jul 2019 Event Type: Tour

Wednesday Tour: Heroes and Villains

Tour times: 1.30PM – 2.30PM

10th Jul 2019 Event Type: Tour

Winchester Festival: Lunchtime Recital

Lisa Dafydd soprano

George Butler bass

Will Lithgow piano

Programme to include Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Fauré, Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Ivor Novello

11th Jul 2019 Event Type: Concert

Winchester Festival: Ed Balls in Conversation with Alastair Stewart

Former Labour MP turned political pundit, Ed Balls reflects on his career with ITV news anchor, Alastair Stewart.

11th Jul 2019 Event Type: Lecture

Winchester Festival: Tallis Scholars

Inspired by the Sistine Chapel

Including Palestrina, Campkin, Morales, Josquin des Prés and Allegri’s Miserere

Over four decades of performance, Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars have done more than any other group to ensure that sacred vocal music of the Renaissance has not fallen out of the repertoire of concerts across the world. This fine programme draws on the richness of music at the Sistine Chapel, which was not solely a treasure trove of visual art.

11th Jul 2019 Event Type: Concert

Winchester Festival: Lunchtime Recital

Rachel Carver harp

Rachel is an award-winning harpist who was the second-placed harpist in The BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2014. Come and listen to her at St Lawerence Church for her Winchester Festival Recital.

12th Jul 2019 Event Type: Concert

Winchester Festival: Simon Schama

Wordy: Sounding off on high art, low appetite and the power of memory

Sir Simon Schama has been at the forefront of the arts, political commentary, social analysis and historical study for over forty years.

As a teacher of Art History and an award-winning television presenter of iconic history-based programming, Sir Simon is equally a prolific bestselling writer and award- winning columnist for many of the world’s foremost publishers, broadsheet newspapers, periodicals and magazines.

Here he selects topics from 50 essays commissioned over the years on the arts, politics, food and life.

12th Jul 2019 Event Type: Lecture

Winchester Festival: Michael Palin

Erebus: The Story of a Ship

In September 2014 the wreck of a sailing vessel, HMS Erebus, was discovered at the bottom of the sea in the frozen wastes of the Canadian Arctic. Its whereabouts had been a mystery for 150 years. Now Michael Palin – former Monty Python stalwart, television globetrotter and bestselling author – brings this extraordinary ship back to life, following it from its launch in 1826 to the epic voyages of discovery that led to glory in the Antarctic and to ultimate catastrophe in the Arctic.

Photo: John Swannell

13th Jul 2019 Event Type: Lecture

Winchester Festival: Ashton Singers with Canzona

Fiftieth Anniversary Concert

Winchester-based chamber choir Ashton Singers, founder and conductor Julian Macey, celebrate their 50th anniversary in the beautiful setting of St Cross with music by Gabrieli, Monteverdi, Schütz, Schein, Buxtehude and others, together with the violins, cornetts and sackbuts of Canzona - one of England’s leading period instrument ensembles (directed by Theresa Caudle).

13th Jul 2019 Event Type: Concert

Friends’ Day

Join us for Friends' Day!

13th Jul 2019 Event Type: Friends

Tea at Three

Tea and fellowship, especially for the elderly or lonely.

15th Jul 2019 Event Type: Activity

Lunchtime Recital: Ruskin Trio

Join us in the wonderful setting of the Quire for a recital from the Ruskin Trio. Nicholas Bucknall (Clarinet), Kate Musker (Viola) and David Elwin (Piano).

Lunchtime recitals are free to attend. A retiring collection will be taken to help defray costs.

16th Jul 2019 Event Type: Concert

Sparsholt College Graduation Ceremonies

Graduation ceremonies for Sparsholt College. Please note, the Cathedral will be closed to visitors during the graduation ceremonies.

17th Jul 2019 Event Type: Other

Southern Cathedral’s Festival 2019 Chichester Cathedral (Thursday 18th July)

The three Cathedrals of the Southern Cathedral's festival are delighted to invite you to Chichester Cathedral and other iconic venues in the city of Chichester for an exciting programme of events, performances and services.

Click here to see events happening on Thursday 18th July 2019.

18th Jul 2019 Event Type: Festival

University of Southampton Graduation Ceremony

Graduation ceremony for the University of Southampton. Please note, the Cathedral will be closed to visitors during the graduation ceremony.

18th Jul 2019 Event Type: Other

Southern Cathedrals Festival 2019 (Chichester Cathedral)

A celebration of sacred choral and organ music featuring the choirs of Winchester Cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral and Chichester Cathedral. The choirs will be performing separately and together and will be complemented by visiting performers.

This year's festival will be hosted by Chichester Cathedral.

Southern Cathedral’s Festival 2019 Chichester Cathedral (Friday 19th July)

Click here to see events happening on Friday 19th July 2019.

19th Jul 2019 Event Type: Festival

Coffee Morning

Join us in the Undercroft from 10.30am for coffee.

Event is for Friends of the Cathedral only

19th Jul 2019 Event Type: Friends

Tour and Tea – The Victorian Story: Vision, Virtue & Infamy

The Cathedral was cold, dismal and colourless when Queen Victoria came to the throne. This tour traces its transformation and introduces colourful Victorian personalities associated with the Cathedral including Soapy Sam; the Bishop of Borneo; the anti muckabite Dean Garnier and the inspiration for one of Trollope’s characters.

20th Jul 2019 Event Type: Tour

Tour and Tea – Tudor Intrigue in Turbulent Times

The religious upheavals of the Reformation, the cultural revolution of the Renaissance and the powerful personalities of the Tudor monarchs have all left their mark on Winchester Cathedral. Come and see this fascinating period of history brought to life.

20th Jul 2019 Event Type: Tour

Southern Cathedral’s Festival 2019 Chichester Cathedral (Saturday 20th July)

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20th Jul 2019 Event Type: Festival

Lunchtime Recital: Musician to be announced

Join us in the wonderful setting of the Quire for a recital.

Lunchtime recitals are free to attend. A retiring collection will be taken to help defray costs.

23rd Jul 2019 Event Type: Concert

Wednesday Tour: 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.

Tour time: 10.30AM - 11.30AM

24th Jul 2019 Event Type: Tour

Wednesday Tour: 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.

Tour time: 1.30PM - 2.30PM

24th Jul 2019 Event Type: Tour

Lunchtime Recital: Lucy Humphris (Trumpet)

Join us in the wonderful setting of the Quire for a recital from Lucy Humphris (Trumpet)

Lunchtime recitals are free to attend. A retiring collection will be taken to help defray costs.

30th Jul 2019 Event Type: Concert

Wednesday Tour: Hurray for Henrys

An account of some of the distinguished men called Henry who have played significant roles in the Cathedral. Come and find out about the King who wasn’t there, and the naval Henry who saved his ship from a hurricane. The Henry who was crowned here but never reigned, and the Henry who celebrated his wedding with “crowned swans”. There was an outlaw Bishop and the man who helped save the Cathedral and build the London underground – all called Henry!

Tour times: 10.30AM - 11.30AM

31st Jul 2019 Event Type: Tour

Wednesday Tour: Hurray for Henrys

Tour times: 1.30PM - 2.30PM

31st Jul 2019 Event Type: Tour

Jane Austen – Tour and Tea

3rd Aug 2019 Event Type: Tour

Tour and Tea: 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.

3rd Aug 2019 Event Type: Tour

Lunchtime Recital: Nadine Benjamin (Soprano)

Join us in the wonderful setting of the Quire for a recital from Nadine Benjamin (Soprano).

Lunchtime recitals are free to attend. A retiring collection will be taken to help defray costs.

6th Aug 2019 Event Type: Concert

Wednesday Tour: Art in the Cathedral

Winchester Cathedral is rich in art objects, including works by internationally acclaimed artists, Peter Eugene Ball, Cecil Collins, Eric Gill, Antony Gormley, Barbara Hepworth 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.

Tour times: 10.30AM - 11.30AM

7th Aug 2019 Event Type: Tour

Wednesday Tour: Art in the Cathedral

Tour times: 1.30PM – 2.30PM

7th Aug 2019 Event Type: Tour

Family Fun: Noteworthy Normans

Pick up a free trail from the Entrance Desk and follow it around the Cathedral. End the trail at the craft table to make your own Norman helmet or colour in a shield. Suitable for children aged 4 to 11 years.

7th Aug 2019 Event Type: Activity

Lunchtime Recital: Musician to be announced

Join us in the wonderful setting of the Quire for a recital.

Lunchtime recitals are free to attend. A retiring collection will be taken to help defray costs.

13th Aug 2019 Event Type: Concert

Wednesday Tour: Icons of the Cathedral

There are 12 icons in Winchester Cathedral. This tour aims to study each in turn; the way they are made, their roots in history and the tradition which produced their artistic style, also to explore the layers of symbolism and meaning within them.

14th Aug 2019 Event Type: Tour

Wednesday Tour: Cathedral Women

Women have always played a part in our Cathedral life; often in a hidden or secondary role. This tour celebrates our Cathedral women, past and present - a selection of famous, self-sacrificing, dutiful and wrongly accused women. Also women who beautify the Cathedral for the Glory of God.

14th Aug 2019 Event Type: Tour

Family Fun: Turbulent Tudors

Pick up a free trail from the Entrance Desk and follow it around the Cathedral. End the trail at the craft table to make a beautiful Tudor Rose. Suitable for children aged 4 to 11 years.

14th Aug 2019 Event Type: Activity

Tour and Tea: Tudor Intrigue in Turbulent Times

17th Aug 2019 Event Type: Tour

Lunchtime Recital: Daniel Lebhardt (Piano)

Join us in the wonderful setting of the Quire for a recital from the pianist, Daniel Lebhardt.

Lunchtime recitals are free to attend. A retiring collection will be taken to help defray costs.

20th Aug 2019 Event Type: Concert

Family Fun: Royalists and Roundheads

Pick up a free trail from the Entrance Desk and follow it around the Cathedral. End the trail at the craft table to make a fabulous flag. Suitable for children aged 4 to 11 years.

21st Aug 2019 Event Type: Activity

Bank Holiday Organ Recital – Steven Grahl

Join us for our final Bank Holiday Organ Recital of 2019, featuring Steven Grahl, Organist at Christ Church, Oxford.

26th Aug 2019 Event Type: Concert

Lunchtime Recital: Joseph Ingle (Classical Guitar)

Join us in the wonderful setting of the Quire for a recital with Joseph Ingle (Classical Guitar)

Lunchtime recitals are free to attend. A retiring collection will be taken to help defray costs.

27th Aug 2019 Event Type: Concert

Wednesday Tour: Wood Glorious Wood

28th Aug 2019 Event Type: Tour

Wednesday Tour: Chantry Chapels – Our Hidden Places

The Cathedral is famous for its chantry chapels. However as access can sometimes be difficult they are usually kept locked and can only be seen from the outside. On this tour the chapels will be open and visitors will be allowed inside to see, at close quarters what they contain.

28th Aug 2019 Event Type: Tour

Family Fun: Adventurous Victorians

Pick up a free trail from the Entrance Desk and follow it around the Cathedral. End the trail at the craft table to make an articulated shadow puppet. Suitable for children aged 4 to 11 years.

28th Aug 2019 Event Type: Activity

Lunchtime Recital: Timothy Easter (Organ)

Join us in the wonderful setting of the Quire for a recital with organist, Timothy Easter.

Lunchtime recitals are free to attend. A retiring collection will be taken to help defray costs.

3rd Sep 2019 Event Type: Concert

Wednesday Tour: Curious and Mysterious

Mysteries are as irksome to the human mind, as a grain of sand is to an oyster. This tour will explain some of the more curious and mysterious happenings, connected to the Cathedral and its monuments; dating from 1250, to the present day.

Tour times: 10.30AM – 11.30AM

4th Sep 2019 Event Type: Tour

Wednesday Tour: Curious and Mysterious

Tour times: 1.30PM – 2.30PM

4th Sep 2019 Event Type: Tour

Tour and Tea – 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 Treasure.

7th Sep 2019 Event Type: Tour

Jane Austen – Tour and Tea

7th Sep 2019 Event Type: Tour

Lunchtime Recital: George Cooke (Cello) & Tom Jesty (Piano)

Join us in the wonderful setting of the Quire for a recital with George Cooke (Cello) & Tom Jesty (Piano)

Lunchtime recitals are free to attend. A retiring collection will be taken to help defray costs.

10th Sep 2019 Event Type: Concert

Wednesday Tour: The Marriage of England and Spain – Mary Tudor’s Wedding

Queen Mary I Marries Prince Philip of Spain: the most famous wedding ever to have taken place in Winchester Cathedral. Discover the intrigues and plots behind-the-scenes in these turbulent Tudor Counter-Reformation times, and eavesdrop on the sumptuous ceremony itself...

11th Sep 2019 Event Type: Tour

Wednesday Tour: Walking on History

The expanse of tiles in Winchester Cathedral are not just the largest pavement in situ in the country but also tell a fascinating story. This tour gives an insight into how the fabric of the Cathedral changed in tune with the times.

11th Sep 2019 Event Type: Tour

The Sixteen: Choral Pilgrimage 2019

The Sixteen return to Winchester Cathedral as part of their 2019 Choral Pilgrimage. The Pilgrimage brings together music past and present, highlighting The Sixteen's Choral journey over the last 40 years. Their close relationship with Sir James MacMillan continues with a new commission O virgo prudentissima, contrasted with music by Fayrfax performed on their very first recording, alongside music by Wylkynson and Sheppard. These fine examples of English polyphony are juxtaposed with stunning music by Tavener and Eric Whitacre in the Sixteen's 40th anniversary year.

13th Sep 2019 Event Type: Concert

Tea at Three

Tea and fellowship, especially for the elderly or lonely.

16th Sep 2019 Event Type: Activity

Lunchtime Recital: Simone Tavoni (Piano)

Join us in the wonderful setting of the Quire for a recital from Simone Tavoni (Piano)

Lunchtime recitals are free to attend. A retiring collection will be taken to help defray costs.

17th Sep 2019 Event Type: Concert

Wednesday Tour: 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.

18th Sep 2019 Event Type: Tour

Wednesday Tour: From Vision to Reality – A Journey Through the Cathedral’s Architecture

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 Walklin achieved the amazing feat of completing most of the original building in just 14 years.

18th Sep 2019 Event Type: Tour

Close Encounters for Heritage Open Days

Walk the Inner Close of Winchester Cathedral and discover over 1,000 years of history from monastic times to the present day.

Open Evening

Join us for Winchester Cathedral’s annual Open Evening. Meet the staff and volunteers who work in every aspect of the day to day running of the Cathedral, from the stonemasons and flower arrangers to the Holy Dusters and the Bell Ringers.

19th Sep 2019 Event Type: Other

Starlight Trail – Wessex Cancer Trust

See Winchester in a different light. Join the Wessex Cancer Trust in a 5K fundraising walk across Winchester visiting iconic landmarks, including Winchester Cathedral, and enjoy live entertainment.

20th Sep 2019 Event Type: Other

Coffee Morning

Join us in the Undercroft from 10.30am for coffee.

Event is for Friends of the Cathedral only.

20th Sep 2019 Event Type: Friends

Tour and Tea – Ins and Outs of Europe

Co-operation and conflict between Britain and Europe as reflected in Winchester Cathedral During this tour we will review how England and Britain’s fluctuating relationships with Europe during the last 1000 years has brought benefits to art and architecture in Winchester Cathedral and is reflected in the lives of Saints, Bishops, Royalty and citizens connected with the Cathedral.

21st Sep 2019 Event Type: Tour

Lunchtime Recital: Organ fun with the Cathedral Organists

Join us in the wonderful setting of the Quire for a recital from the Cathedral Organists, Andrew Lumsden, George Castle and Claudia Grinnell. The recital is entitled Organ fun with a programme full of light-hearted and well known musical favourites.

Lunchtime recitals are free to attend. A retiring collection will be taken to help defray costs.

24th Sep 2019 Event Type: Concert

Tour of the Bishops’ Portraits and Chapel at Wolvesey

This is a rare opportunity to view the Bishops' portraits and chapel at Wolvesey, the Bishop's residence. The tour will be followed by tea and cake.

Event is for Friends of the Cathedral only.

25th Sep 2019 Event Type: Friends

Old Choristers Association Concert

Join us for an evening of music at the Old Choristers Association concert.

28th Sep 2019 Event Type: Concert

Refectory: Secret Garden Wedding Fayre

Visit our sublime venues, meet our experienced team and over fifteen local exhibitors at this ‘secret garden’ themed Wedding Fair. Free entry, with an arrival drink.

29th Sep 2019 Event Type: Other

Lunchtime Recital: Oliver Nelson (Violin) & Vaslisi Rakitzis (Piano)

Join us in the wonderful setting of the Quire for a recital with Oliver Nelson (Violin) & Vaslisi Rakitzis (Piano).

Lunchtime recitals are free to attend. A retiring collection will be taken to help defray costs.

1st Oct 2019 Event Type: Concert

Tour and Tea – Our Royal Heritage

An insight into the Cathedrals many royal connections from the Norman conquest to the present day.

5th Oct 2019 Event Type: Festival

Jane Austen – Tour and Tea

5th Oct 2019 Event Type: Tour

Green Harvest Weekend

A fun-packed weekend celebrating Harvest and exploring the current environmental issues facing farmers, Hampshire and the country as a whole.

Lunchtime Recital: Winchester College Music Scholars

Join us in the wonderful setting of the Quire for a recital by the Winchester College Music Scholars.

Lunchtime recitals are free to attend. A retiring collection will be taken to help defray costs.

8th Oct 2019 Event Type: Concert

Voices for Hospices Choir Massed Come and Sing ‘Elijah’

Voices for Hospices Choir are passionate about enabling singers to join together and raise their voices to help those with end of life and life limiting illnesses. Join them for a concert at Winchester Cathedral in 2019!

12th Oct 2019 Event Type: Concert

Coffee Morning

Join us in the Undercroft from 10.30am for coffee.

Event is for Friends' of the Cathedral only.

18th Oct 2019 Event Type: Friends

Tour and Tea: From Vision to Reality

Learn about the architecture of this great cathedral and how it was built 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 Walklin achieved the amazing feat of completing most of the original building in just 14 years.

19th Oct 2019 Event Type: Tour

Tea at Three

Tea and fellowship, especially for the elderly or lonely.

21st Oct 2019 Event Type: Activity

Friends’ Annual Lecture Kings and Scribes – The Story Behind The Scenes’

This year’s Annual Lecture will feature the Dean of Winchester, The Very Reverend Catherine Ogle, Vice-Dean Canon Roland Riem, Receiver General Annabelle Boyes, Cathedral Archaeologist John Crook and Cathedral Architect Nick Cox. Hear the behind-the-scenes story of the recent restoration and conservation work in the Cathedral and the launch of the spectacular new National Lottery Funded exhibition Kings and Scribes: The Birth of a Nation.

22nd Oct 2019 Event Type: Lecture

Lunchtime Recital: Ben Sheen

Join us in the wonderful setting of the Quire for a recital from organist, Ben Sheen.

Lunchtime recitals are free to attend. A retiring collection will be taken to help defray costs.

22nd Oct 2019 Event Type: Concert

Open Chapter

Wessex Centre

An informal opportunity for members of the community roll to meet and talk with Chapter members.

Open Chapter dates 2019
Wednesday 23 October
Wednesday 4 December

23rd Oct 2019 Event Type: Other

Lunchtime Recital: Michael Christian Durrant and Samuel Moore (Classical Guitar)

Join us in the wonderful setting of the Quire for a recital with Michael Christian Durrant and Samuel Moore (Classical Guitar)

Lunchtime recitals are free to attend. A retiring collection will be taken to help defray costs.

29th Oct 2019 Event Type: Concert

Family Fun: Wonderful William Walker

Pick up a free trail from the Entrance Desk and follow it around the Cathedral. End the trail at the craft table for crafts, colouring and fun worksheets. Suitable for children aged 4 to 11 years.

30th Oct 2019 Event Type: Activity

Jane Austen – Tour and Tea

2nd Nov 2019 Event Type: Tour

A Day in the Life of Head Virger, Daren Gibb

Join us at the Paul Woodhouse Suite where Head Virger, Daren Gibb, will talk about a day in the life of "Custos" at Winchester Cathedral.

12th Nov 2019 Event Type: Lecture

Winchester Music Club Concert

David Thomas, Musical Director, will conduct Winchester Music Club Choir and Orchestra together with Winchester College Glee Club and Quiristers in a programme of Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Duruflé’s Requiem at Winchester Cathedral.

14th Nov 2019 Event Type: Concert

G4 at Christmas

Experience sumptuous harmonies in an idyllic, festive setting.

18th Nov 2019 Event Type: Concert

Winchester Cathedral Ice Rink 2019

Winchester Cathedral Ice Rink is spectacularly situated in the centre of the Cathedral's historic Inner Close and until 22 December it is surrounded by the Christmas Market. The clear roof guarantees a rain-free skate whatever the weather and fun skate aids make it an ideal rink for adults and children alike. Our giant Christmas tree brings festive cheer to all our skaters.

Winchester Cathedral Christmas Market 2019

Winchester Cathedral’s Christmas Market is recognised as one of the best Christmas Markets in Europe because of its unique location, high-quality exhibitors and bustling atmosphere. Wonderful Christmas gifts, decorations and festive foods can be found in abundance, with a delightful Food Court, British Crafts Village, and over 100 chalets to explore.

Christmas Market and Ice Rink Opening Ceremony

Join us for the official opening of the Christmas Market and Ice Rink and enjoy professional ice skating displays and music along with the blessing of the tree. Be one of the first to skate on the ice and explore this year's Christmas Market!

21st Nov 2019 Event Type: Festival

Christmas Tower Tours

Experience the best views over Winchester and the Cathedral Christmas Market and Ice Rink from the top of the Cathedral Tower.

Twilight Tower Tours

Experience the best views of Winchester and the Christmas Market and Ice Rink from the top of the Cathedral Tower at Twilight.

Coffee Morning

Join us in the Undercroft from 10.30am for coffee.

Event is for Friends of the Cathedral only.

22nd Nov 2019 Event Type: Friends

Lantern Parade 2019

The lantern parade is back for 2019, but bigger and better than ever!

28th Nov 2019 Event Type: Festival

Advent Procession

A service of seasonal readings and music by candlelight, moving from darkness to light.

30th Nov 2019 Event Type: Faith

Open Chapter

Wessex Centre

An informal opportunity for members of the community roll to meet and talk with Chapter members.

The final Open Chapter this year will be on Wednesday 4 December.

4th Dec 2019 Event Type: Other

Waynflete Singers: Elgar’s The Kingdom

Under the baton of Andrew Lumsden, with a stellar array of soloists, Sir Edward Elgar's mighty oratorio presents a moving portrait in sound of Jesus's disciples and the life of the early church.

7th Dec 2019 Event Type: Concert

Family Carol Service

Join us for family-friendly afternoon carol services and enjoy cheerful carol singing in the magnificent Nave of the Cathedral. Visitors to the Christmas Market and Ice Rink are especially welcome.

Also on Sunday 15 December at 3.30pm.

8th Dec 2019 Event Type: Family

Cathedral Christmas Concert

Join us for an evening of music, laughter and delight at Winchester Cathedral. This year, we are thrilled to welcome award-winning comedian, Hugh Dennis, star of BBC One's Outnumbered, Radio 4’s The Now Show and BBC Two's Mock the Week, who will offer amusing observations on the ups and downs of family life at Christmas time.

13th Dec 2019 Event Type: Concert

Special Christmas Coffee Morning

Join us in the Undercroft from 10.30am for a special Christmas event.

Event is for Friends of the Cathedral only.

13th Dec 2019 Event Type: Friends

The Snowman featuring The Donkey’s Tale 2019

The world’s most prolific performers of The Snowman film with live orchestra, Carrot Productions are delighted to be bringing their enchanting Christmas show to Winchester Cathedral.

14th Dec 2019 Event Type: Concert

Family Carol Service

Join us for family-friendly afternoon carol services and enjoy cheerful carol singing in the magnificent Nave of the Cathedral. Visitors to the Christmas Market and Ice Rink are especially welcome.

Also on Sunday 8 December at 3.30pm.

15th Dec 2019 Event Type: Family