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Winchester Cathedral in Hampshire
Plan your tour to Winchester Cathedral
- Category
- Churches, Cathedrals & Abbeys
- Address
- 1 The Close
- Winchester
- Hampshire
- SO23 9LS
- Opening times
- 9am - 5pm Monday to Saturday
12.30 - 3pm Sunday - Ticket prices
- Adults: £6
Children under 16 with family: Free
Over 65 and groups of 10+: £4.80
Students: £3.50
This Norman cathedral was built on a bog and the foundations of beech logs, built on gravel, were rotting. The cathedral was in serious danger of collapse. Any attempt to move the logs and underpin with concrete would be thwarted because of the high water table.
The task of saving the church was given to one man, William Walker, a diver who spent 5 solitary years filling the cracks with liquid cement and then placing dry cement under the base of the walls. This feat as commemorated with a statue.
The crypt, under the east end, regularly floods and the vaulting is reflected beautifully around Anthony Gormley's "Sound II" contemplative figure.
The cathedral also possesses the only diatonic ring of 14 church bells in the world, with a tenor (heaviest bell) weighing 1.81 tonnes (2.00 tons).
