Services

Sunday	Sung Mattins 09.45; Sung Eucharist 11.15; Evensong 15.30
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday (men only), Friday, Saturday	17.30 Choral Evensong

Service Sheet www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk/events/2/

Facilities

Entrance: £10 annual pass, £6 adults, £4.80 concessions, £3.50 students, FREE children under 16 with family

Guided tours: Cathedral Tours Monday-Saturday 10.00 & hourly till 15.00
Tower Tours lasting an hour and a half 14.15 daily in summer months, limited in winter. Restricted to ages 12-70, cost £6.00, £9.00 if combined with Cathedral entry

Refectory: In the Visitor Centre open 09.30-17.00 (16.30 in winter)

Shop: In the Visitor Centre open 09.30-17.30 (17.00 in winter)

Toilet facilities: In the Visitor Centre

Website: winchester-cathedral.org.uk

Telephone
Cathedral Office 01962 857200
Tours 01962 857225

Music

Organist & Director of Music
Andrew Lumsden (since 2002)

Choir
There are 22 boy Choristers, who sing an average of six services a week. They all board at the Pilgrim School in the Close. A girls treble line, of 20 girls, was formed in 1999 and they sing one service a week. 12 Lay Clerks sing with both treble lines. Auditions in November (boys) and February (girls).

Organ

!851 Father Willis, restored 1897 Willis, 1905 Hele.  Rebuilt 1938, 1988, 1998 Harrison & Harrison  

4 manuals  79 stops

Pedals 17 stops, Choir 10 stops, Nave 9 stops, Great 17 stops, Swell 16 stops, Solo 10 stops

Organ specification npor.emma.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N00289

Cathedral

Dean
The Very Revd James Atwell (since 2004)

Bishop
The Right Revd Michael Scott-Joynt (since 1995)

Building
The Foundation is one of the oldest in the country dating back to 648.  Construction began in 1079 on the orders of William the Conqueror and was completed in 1093.  The squat central tower was begun in 1202 to replace an earlier tower.  Work continued in the 14th, 15th & 16th centuries.  The cloister and chapter house were demolished in the 16th century when the Benedictine Priory was dissolved.  T G Jackson carried out restoration work from 1905 - 12 and saved the cathedral from total collapse by packing the foundations with thousands of bags of concrete, concrete blocks and bricks.  The choir stalls were 700 years old in 2008.