Historic Cities
Walk Winchester in AD 900
AI rebuilds Wintanceaster (Winchester) street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.
Historic Places, Rebuilt · City walk
Alfred's Winchester, 900
This is Winchester at the moment it is being remade as a defended burh under King Alfred and his successors: a new grid of straight streets within ancient Roman walls, two great minsters side by side, a royal hall and the first moneyers striking silver pennies. The walk follows the narrow paved lanes, the river mills and water meadows of the Itchen, and the gates and walls that frame urban life.
34 scenes — 21 streets, squares and views, 13 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Winchester as it stood in AD 900 (“Winchester”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. St Catherine's Hill Approach
- 2. South Gate
- 3. Southgate Street
- 4. High Street
- ↳ Merchant's Hall · interior
- 5. St Peter Cheesehill
- ↳ Parish Nave · interior
- 6. Old Minster Forecourt
- ↳ Great Nave · interior
- 7. New Minster Precinct
- ↳ Scribe's Scriptorium · interior
- 8. Cathedral Precinct
- ↳ Chapter House · interior
- 9. Royal Palace
- ↳ Great Hall · interior
- 10. The Mint
- ↳ Moneyer's Workshop · interior
- 11. Moneyer's Yard
- ↳ Assay House · interior
- 12. Kingsgate
- ↳ Gate Tower Chamber · interior
- 13. Westgate
- ↳ West Gate Guardroom · interior
- 14. Itchen Bridge
- 15. Itchen Mills
- ↳ Upper Mill Floor · interior
- 16. Itchen Watermeadows
- ↳ Weir-Keeper's Hut · interior
- 17. North Gate
- 18. Northgate Street
- 19. Nunnaminster
- ↳ Convent Refectory · interior
- 20. St Swithun's Row
- 21. St Giles' Hill Vantage