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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. Photographs by Paul Highnam for Country Life.
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
The War Cloister was designed as a memorial to those of Winchester College that died during the First World War. The college was founded by William of Wykeham in 1382 and was intended, along with its associated institution of New College, Oxford, to help provide the church with well-educated clergy.
The Winchester College War Cloister is a war memorial at Winchester College, in Hampshire, designed by the architect Sir Herbert Baker. The roofed quadrangle is said by Historic England to be the largest known private war memorial in Europe.
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Jan 13, 2019 · Medieval Dining Hall at Winchester College in Winchester, Hampshire, UK Around the third courtyard there is a cloister that the boys can use for silent contemplation. The long, wide corridors are ideal for exercising in wet weather and the holding of lessons in hot weather.
