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The Old Minster was the Anglo-Saxon cathedral for the English diocese of Wessex and then Winchester from 660 to 1093. It stood on a site immediately north of and partially beneath its successor, Winchester Cathedral . Some sources say that the minster was constructed in 648 for King Cenwalh of Wessex as the church of St Peter and St ...
This building, known as the Old Minster, became the cathedral for the new Diocese of Winchester in 662, a vast area stretching from the English Channel to the River Thames, the bishopric having been transferred from Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire by Bishop Wine.
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- 1079–1532
- 24 March 1950
La catedral de Winchester es la iglesia catedral de la iglesia de Inglaterra erigida en Winchester, condado de Hampshire. Es una de las mayores catedrales de Inglaterra y uno de los mejoros ejemplos del gótico perpendicular .
The New Minster in Winchester was a royal Benedictine abbey founded in 901 in Winchester in the English county of Hampshire. Alfred the Great had intended to build the monastery , but only got around to buying the land.
Also in the late 10th century, the Old Minster was enlarged as a centre of the cult of the 9th century Bishop of Winchester, Saint Swithun. The three minsters were the home of what architectural historian John Crook describes as "the supreme artistic achievements" of the Winchester School .
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En esta época se amplió el Old Minster como centro de culto gracias al obispo Suituno de Winchester. Los tres templos son los logros supremos de la denominada Escuela de Winchester , según el historiador John Crook.
From AD 597 the new Christian faith began to spread through southern England, and it was in the middle of the 7th century that the first Christian church, the Old Minster, was built within the Roman walls of Winchester. A few years later in 676 the Bishop of Wessex moved his seat to Winchester and as such the Old Minster became a cathedral.
