Winchester: Swithun's 'City of Happiness and Good Fortune' by Ottaway Patrick;

Author:Ottaway, Patrick;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 4866321
Publisher: Oxbow Books, Limited
Published: 2017-06-30T00:00:00+00:00

Wolvesey

The first mention of a bishop’s aula (hall) at Wolvesey (Fig 5.3, 51) occurs in c 1000 and it probably had its origins at the time of the reforms of Bishop Æthelwold (Biddle and Keene 1976a, 323–4). In addition to the hall, there was a bishop’s sleeping chamber and perhaps a prison (Biddle 1986b, 4). This establishment was located in what became an enclosure of c 3.6ha in the south-eastern corner of the city. The east and south sides were defined by the town walls. The western and northern walls which survive today probably follow boundaries created by Æthelwold as part of his reorganisation of the minster precincts in the 980s.

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