]XX. WINCHESTER. 



pity-stalls or misereres. Mr. Prideaux received unbounded satisfac- 

 tion on reaching the cloisters and seeing the fine array of ancient 

 brasses, many of them pre-Reformation, which have, for the sake of 

 preservation, been removed from the cloister floor, where they are 

 liable to effacement, to the walls ; but he deprecated the brasses being 

 so persistently polished, like a brass plate on a doctor's door ! The 

 Club next entered the chantry chapel of John Fromond, first steward to 

 William de Wykeham. It was erected in 1430 in the cloister garth, 

 with the scriptorium over it, and is now used as a junior chapel, the 

 services being held simultaneously in this and the main chapel. 



Thence they were conducted to the fine schoolroom of 

 1680, with its famous motto presenting two alternatives 

 " Aut disce, aut discede, Manet sors tertia, csedi." It is 

 now used for speech days and such-like assemblies. After 

 inspecting the fine museum and library the party thanked 

 their guides, and returned to their hotel for luncheon. 



THE CATHEDRAL. 



After luncheon the club devoted the rest of their time in 

 Winchester to its crowning glory the Cathedral having 

 thus, it would seem, kept the best until last, or, if not the best, 

 certainly the biggest. As guide they had none less than the 

 Dean (the Very Rev. Dr. Furneaux), who, receiving them at 

 the west door, first called attention to the superb vista which 

 confronts the eye within the building. 



Here, as in our own Abbey Church of Sherborne, the Perpendicular 

 " improvers " cased the massive Norman columns of the nave with their 

 own work, so that the core of the Perpendicular columns consists of 

 Norman columns. The Dean pointed out how, when the Perpendicular 

 builders threw up the arches, they did away with the Norman triforium 

 and brought down the clerestory, thus combining clerestory and 

 triforium in one. Bishop Edington began the work by doing the first 

 two bays on the north side, and it was continued by the great Wykeham. 

 Wykeham's chantry was entered, and the recumbent effigy upon his 

 tomb, absolutely free from mutilation or defacement by the mischievous 

 penknife so prone to cut names and initials, drew exclamations of 

 gratification from the visitors. How the tomb and figure escaped 

 unscathed when so much else suffered the Dean explained by an 



