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The Southern Cathedrals Festival will take place this year at Chichester Cathedral from 18 – 21 July and tickets are now on sale. SCF is a celebration of services, concerts and fellowship, shared between Chichester, Salisbury and Winchester Cathedrals, and is hosted by them in turn in July each year. In 2014, SCF comes to [...]
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Christian Aid was founded in the aftermath of WW2, when a group of church leaders met together to help European refugees who had simply lost everything. It has steadily grown to become a global charity spanning nations, tirelessly striving to tackle both the effects and the root causes of poverty. Its work reaches out to [...]
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Winchester Cathedral has today released information of its 2013 series of organ recitals. Starting on 1 April (Easter Monday) at 4pm with recently arrived Assistant Director of Music, George Castle, in his first series at Winchester Cathedral. This year, most of the recitals are on Bank Holiday Mondays at 4pm, with two in the middle [...]
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12 March to 22 April, Cathedral opening hours. Winchester Cathedral is delighted to welcome an exhibition of sculpture by Edward Hopkins for a Lenten exhibition in the Retrochoir. Hopkins was an established furniture maker before turning to devotional work. This shows in his understanding of his chosen material, together with the clarity of design in [...]
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Winchester Cathedral has today released information of services for Holy Week and Easter 2013. There will be, as ever, a rich seam of liturgy at the Cathedral during Holy Week, as the drama of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ are remembered, alongside billions of Christians around the world. Holy Week commences on Palm [...]
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Winchester Cathedral has today released final details of their flower extravaganza, Symphony of Flowers, for which tickets are now on sale. SYMPHONY OF FLOWERS, the Cathedral’s first Flower Festival for 10 years, will take place between 12 and 16 June 2013. The Cathedral is no stranger to symphonies, but here’s one with a bit of [...]
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See Winchester Cathedral in a New Light Cathedral Open Evening – Tuesday 29 January, 6.30pm – 8.30pm. Once again Winchester Cathedral opens its doors to the public at the Open Evening on Tuesday 29 January, welcoming everyone to find out what goes on behind-the-scenes and, with the medieval nave clear of chairs, offering a rare [...]
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Jane Austen has long been one of Winchester Cathedral’s most favourite ‘residents’. Her grave and ledger stone are one of its most visited places and there has been a permanent exhibition about her life in the area and her work for some years now. It is therefore not surprising that 2013 has been greeted with [...]
Address preached by the Revd. Julian Barker at the Funeral Service of the Very Revd. Michael Till, Dean of Winchester 1996 – 2005, on Friday 14th December 2012. As I was trying to work out how I could possibly say something worthwhile about Michael in the brief time allotted to me, the churchwarden of Egdean, [...]
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Winchester Cathedral has today released final information of their Advent and Christmas Services this year. Giving his Christmas message, The Dean of Winchester, The Very Revd James Atwell fees that: “The Christmas story is one that changes our lives. “It arouses joy, wonder and hope for the future in equal measure: ‘unto us a child [...]