Name | Winchester St. Swithin |
Alt names | Winchester Cathedral | source: alternate name | | Winchester Holy Trinity and St. Peter and St. Paul and St. Swithun | source: formal dedication | | Winchester St. Swithun's | source: alternate spelling |
Type | Parish (ancient), Civil parish |
Coordinates | 51.0606°N 1.3131°W |
Located in | Hampshire, England |
See also | Winchester Soke, Hampshire, England | ancient county division in which it was located | | Winchester, Hampshire, England | city in which it was situated (civil parish absorbed in 1902) |
Winchester St. Swithin is the cathedral of Winchester. It was a civil parish until 1902 when it was absorbed into the civil parish of Winchester.
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Winchester Cathedral is a cathedral of the Church of England in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It is one of the largest cathedrals in Europe, with the greatest overall length of any Gothic cathedral.
Dedicated to the Holy Trinity,[1] Saint Peter, Saint Paul, and before the Reformation, Saint Swithun, it is the seat of the Bishop of Winchester and centre of the Diocese of Winchester. The cathedral is a Grade I listed building.
Parish Registers began | 1485-1598 a few burials; 1754-1869 no marriages; baptisms, burials, marriages in other years
| Biships Transcripts began | 1780-1866
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Data from English Jurisdictions.
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- A collection of maps on the A Vision of Britain through Time website illustrating the English county of Hampshire over the period 1832-1932 (the last two are expandible):
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- A group of maps of the post-1974 municipal districts or boroughs of Hampshire on Wikipedia Commons
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