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Jan 21, 2024 · The architect Sir Herbert Baker was the creator of the War Cloister at Winchester College, perhaps the greatest of his many public-school war memorials. Timothy Mowl explores the history of this remarkable monument.
Mar 5, 2023 · War Cloister was first conceived as part of a series of new college buildings, providing useful modern spaces to the school. Baker even proposed the dismantling and re-erection of 1680s School on an alignment with War Cloister, eating up the gardens of Kingsgate Street.
The medieval buildings, representing most of the original foundation from the school's opening in 1394, include Outer Gate and Outer Court, Chamber Court, the Chapel, and the Cloisters. Most are built using flint with limestone facings and slate roofs; [7] [4] the Chapel is mostly in "green Ventnor stone". [8]
Nov 15, 2011 · John Fromond's chantry chapel stands in the garth of the cloisters at Winchester College, and is now commonly known to the inmates of the college by the brief name of ‘Chantry’ (pl. XXI, fig. 1).
- Herbert Chitty
- 1926
WAR CLOISTER CENTENARY. To mark the Centenary of War Cloister we are putting on a special programme of events and lectures and a podcast series. There is also an important conservation project to preserve this historic monument. Details of the work and our fundraising towards it can be found below.
Feb 26, 2023 · The site chosen for the buildings lay just outside the city walls in immediate shadow of the cathedral priory close and Wolvesey, the castle palace of the Bishops of Winchester. To the east it was bounded by a chantry college dedicated to St Elizabeth, founded in 1301, which was razed at the Reformation.
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Jan 13, 2019 · The Cloisters at Winchester College, Winchester in Hampshire, UK . A passageway leads from the cloisters into the medieval classroom. For teaching purposes, the boys would have been divided into groups which then used the four corners of this room.
