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William of Wykeham (born William Longe) was the son of John Longe, a freeman from Wickham in Hampshire. He was educated at a school in Winchester, and probably enjoyed early patronage from two local men, Sir Ralph Sutton, constable of Winchester Castle, and Sir John Scures, lord of the manor of Wickham, and then from Thomas Foxley, Constable of Windsor Castle.
A small statue of Walker is displayed in the Cathedral, near the shrine of St Swithun and the remains of King Canute. [6] Until May 2001 the statue was one mistakenly modelled on the project's consultant engineer, Francis Fox. [7] There is also a bust of Walker in the Cathedral gardens. [8] A public house in Winchester is also named after him. [9]
He was born on 8 February 1754 at Barnack in Northamptonshire, where his father, Thomas Rennell (1720–1798), a prebendary of Winchester, was rector.In 1766 Thomas was sent to Eton, and thence proceeded to King's College, Cambridge, where, in due time, he became a fellow.
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Cheyney's tomb in Winchester Cathedral. Thomas Cheney or Cheyney (1694 – 27 January 1760) was a priest of Church of England, who served as Dean of Lincoln from 1744 to 1748 and Dean of Winchester from 25 March 1748 to 1760. [1] He was the only son of another Thomas Cheyney, prebendary of Wells Cathedral and master at Winchester College. [2]
Winchester Cathedral is possibly the only cathedral to have had popular songs written about it. "Winchester Cathedral" was a UK top ten hit and a US number one song for The New Vaudeville Band in 1966. The cathedral was also the subject of the Crosby, Stills & Nash song "Cathedral" from their 1977 album CSN.
Grenadier Thetcher's gravestone has been quoted and misquoted extensively in the centuries since his death. Bill W., author of Alcoholics Anonymous (1939), the book which inspired the modern spiritual alcoholism recovery movement of the same name, quotes/paraphrases the first and last parts of the gravestone on the first page, writing:
He became master mason at Wells Cathedral on 1 February 1365 [3] where he is believed to have designed the South West tower, it was probably here that he met William of Wykeham who was then a provost of the cathedral. He was made master of the works at Windsor Castle in 1364 [4] under Wykeham, in 1372 Edward III granted Wynford a pension of £ ...