Photograph of the east end of Winchester Cathedral
Taken about 1870
The east end of Winchester Cathedral displays a wide range of architectural periods from the late eleventh to the late fifteenth centuries. Furthest east is the Early English retrochoir, its construction initiated in Bishop Godfrey de Lucy in the early 1200s, which increased the space available to cope with pilgrims to the Shrine of St Swithun. It terminates in three chapels, the late fifteenth century addition to the central Lady Chapel extending beyond its east wall.
The heavy Norman south transept and tower are in stark contrast to this as, in a different way, are the two small girls posed in the foreground.
The photograph was taken by Winchester photographer William Savage (1817-87) and is found in an album entitled 'Hampshire Views of Churches, Country Houses and Public Buildings'.
