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1 giorno fa · Eton's first Head Master, William Waynflete, founder of Magdalen College, Oxford and previously headmaster of Winchester College, built the ante-chapel that completed the chapel. The important wall paintings in the chapel and the brick north range of the present School Yard also date from the 1480s; the lower storeys of the cloister, including College Hall, were built between 1441 and 1460.
3 giorni fa · FOR the third year in a row Winchester College will open its gardens to the public as part of the National Garden Scheme. The scheme gives people access to more than 3,500 private gardens across England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the Channel Islands, to raise money for nursing and health charities. Last year, Winchester College raised more ...
3 giorni fa · Further in the same year, in aid of inclosing the town for its security and the safeguarding of the parts adjacent, the king granted the Mayor and good men of Winchester that they should for the next two years take a custom of ½d. from every cart of the county bearing goods for sale into Winchester and of ¼d. from every such cart of every other county, also of ½d. for every horse or mare ...
2 giorni fa · • Patsy Cline Tribute. The Alumni Music Series concludes its monthly performances with a tribute to Handley’s most famous former student, Patsy Cline. The concert will take place on June 8 at ...
16 ore fa · Michael Schwerner (1939-1964) was a Civil Rights activist who, with two friends (Andrew Goodman, James Chaney), went to the South in 1964 to support voting rights for African-Americans. The three were kidnapped and murdered by the KKK. Schwerner was a graduate of Cornell, Class of 1961.
2 giorni fa · He enfeoffed William of Wykeham of the whole manor of West Wittenham which had belonged to John Lock, and it was granted to Winchester College. (fn. 117) In 1428 all the lands which had belonged to Roger Hilary (Illary) and John Lock were in the tenure of William Felice, (fn. 118) and from this time the estate probably followed the descent of the Plessis' manor.
4 giorni fa · Ralph Allwood MBE DMus was for 26 years Director of Music at Eton College and is now a freelance choral director, teacher and conductor. He is the Director of the Rodolfus (ex-Eton) Choral Courses, which he founded in 1980. He co-founded the Junior Choral Courses in 2012. Ten thousand 8 to 20 year-olds have since been students on courses.
