Old Minster
Burial place · School or library
former Anglo-Saxon cathedral for the diocese of Wessex
Location: 51.0610, -1.3140
What this place is
- School or library — the school Æthelwold kept at the old cathedral of Winchester, where Ælfric was taught his Latin and where the Benedictional of Æthelwold was written and painted
Who is recorded here
- Beornstan of Winchester burial · AD 934
About the place
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.
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