VII.—The Bosses on the Vault of the Quire of Winchester Cathedral

C.J.P. Cave

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VII.—The Bosses on the Vault of the Quire of Winchester Cathedral

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The internal vaulted roof of the presbytery of Winchester Cathedral is ornamented with a series of ninety-seven carved wooden bosses (pl. xxvi). They are not only interesting in themselves, but they are thought to throw some light on the date of the roof itself. In any case they are worthy of careful study.

Type: Research Article
Information: Archaeologia , Volume 76 , 1927 , pp. 161 - 178

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261340900013266 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1927

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^{page 161 note 1} History and Survey of Winchester, 2nd ed., 1809, vol. ii, p. 45.Google Scholar

^{page 161 note 2} Extract from Cathedral Archives kindly made by Canon A. W. Goodman, F.S.A.

^{page 161 note 3} Vol. xcviii, pt. ii, p. 312.

^{page 161 note 4} Vol. lxxxix, pt. ii, p. 29.

^{page 161 note 5} P. 305.

^{page 162 note 1} Dean Kitchin, quoted by E. C. Batten in the Register of Bishop Fox, p. 67; also the V.C.H., Hants, vol. v, p. 56, where it is stated that on one of the bosses are to be found the arms of ‘Prince Arthur impaling the Royal Arms of Spain, which dates the work to about 1502.’

^{page 162 note 2} Willis and Clark, Architectural History of the University of Cambridge, vol. i, p. 499.

^{page 163 note 1} Willis, , Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute, Winchester, 1845, p. 49Google Scholar.

^{page 165 note 1} M 5, f. 1.

^{page 166 note 1} Harl. 2169 [printed in the de Walden Library 1904: and see Archaeologia, vol. lxviii, p. 36].

^{page 166 note 2} Harl. 1049, and Harl. 1977.

^{page 167 note 1} See James, M. R., The Apocryphal New Testament, p. 157.Google Scholar

^{page 168 note 1} See Henry Bradshaw Society publications, vol. xxii, pp. 647, 657, and pl. i.

^{page 168 note 2} Coll. of Arms MS., M5, f. i.

^{page 168 note 3} Henry Bradshaw Society publications, vol. xxii, p. 657.

^{page 169 note 1} Henry Bradshaw Society, vol. xxii, p. 658.

^{page 169 note 2} Màle, Emile, L'Art religieux de la Fin du Moyen Âge en France, 1908, p. 97CrossRef Google Scholar.

^{page 169 note 3} Coll. of Arms MS., M 5, f. i.

^{page 169 note 4} Coll. of Arms MS., I 2.

^{page 169 note 5} Coll. of Arms MS., Vincent 172, f. 12.

^{page 169 note 6} Coll. of Arms MS., M 3, f. 73.

^{page 170 note 1} Coll. of Arms MSS., 12, f. 7; L 14, pt. i, f. 366, &c.

^{page 170 note 2} Harl. 1506, f. 8; Coll. of Arms MS., I 2, f. 3, &c.

^{page 170 note 3} There seems to have been much confusion between Caedwalader, the supposed last king of the Britons, and Caedwalla, the Saxon king of Wessex; both have the same arms attributed to them, though the latter is sometimes given the arms of Edward the Confessor; Eg. 2874, f. 6.

^{page 170 note 4} Caradoc of Llancarvan, History of Wales, Englished by Powell, Wynne's edition, 1774, p. 331.

^{page 170 note 5} Coll. of Arms MS., M 3, f. 73, &c.

^{page 170 note 6} Harl. 1392, f. 14; Coll. of Arms MS., Prince Arthur's Book, &c.

^{page 170 note 7} See above (p. 162) for the letters on this boss.

^{page 171 note 1} Harl. 2076, f. 44, and Harl. 6085.

^{page 171 note 2} Coll. of Arms MS., Vincent 172, f. 13.

^{page 171 note 3} Loc. cit., f. 24.

^{page 171 note 4} Harl. 1073, ff. 86, 87.

^{page 172 note 1} Harl. 4632, f. 52; Coll. of Arms MS., 12, f. 4.

^{page 172 note 2} Coll. of Arms MS., I 2.

^{page 172 note 3} Harl. 4632, f. 236, and Bodleian, Digby 82, the latter quoted in Archaeologia, vol. xvii, p. 226. See also Planché, The Pursuivant of Arms, 3rd ed., p. 261 et seq.

^{page 172 note 4} Coll. of Arms MS., 12, f. 6.

^{page 172 note 5} Harl. 1073, f. 8.

^{page 172 note 6} Harl. 2076, f. 44.

^{page 172 note 7} Planché The Pursuivant of Arms, 3rd ed., p. 251.

^{page 173 note 1} Harl. 6085.

^{page 173 note 2} Harl. 4632, f. 238.

^{page 173 note 3} Coll. of Arms MS., L14, f. 106.

^{page 173 note 4} Harl. 4632, f. 236, and Bodleian MS., Digby 82, the latter quoted in Archaeologia, vol. xvii, p. 227.

^{page 173 note 5} Vide supra (p. 162) for these arms and those of Katherine of Aragon.

^{page 173 note 6} Harl. 4632, f. 237.

^{page 173 note 7} Coll. of Arms MS., L 14, f. 380.

^{page 173 note 8} See boss no. 34, p. 171.

^{page 174 note 1} Brit. Mus. Seal, lxxxviii, 33; see also Woodward, Ecclesiastical Heraldry, pp. 101, 102.

^{page 174 note 2} Brit. Mus. Seal, liv, 88; Archaeologia, vol. lxxii, pl. v.

^{page 174 note 3} Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in hall; St. George's Chapel, Windsor, boss at east end of quire vaulting.

^{page 174 note 4} Coll. of Arms MSS., Prince Arthur's Book, f. 156; M 3, f. 64.

^{page 174 note 5} Oxford Add. MS. 12443, quoted by Papworth, Ordinary of British Armorials, p. 317.

^{page 174 note 6} Coll. of Arms MS., L 8, ff. 69, 70.

^{page 175 note 1} Woodward, , Ecclesiastical Heraldry, p. 181.Google Scholar

^{page 175 note 2} Woodward, , loc. cit, pp. 176 and 497Google Scholar; but Woodward is wrong in his recollection that the arms of Wells in the east window at Winchester are those generally in use: they are azure a saltire gold, as elsewhere in the cathedral.

^{page 175 note 3} Loc. cit., p. 174.

^{page 175 note 4} Winchester Cathedral Library, Baigent MSS.

^{page 175 note 5} Coll. of Arms MSS., M 3, f. 64, and L8, f. 65.

^{page 176 note 1} Brit. Mus. Seal, lxxxviii, 33, and Woodward, Ecclesiastical Heraldry, pp. 101, 102.

^{page 177 note 1} See above (p. 161) for a note on this boss.

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