The icons in the Retro-Choir of Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire, England, UK, late 20th century icons by Sergei Fyodorov including Saint Swithun

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Reading from south to north (left to right) the icons portray St Birinus (Apostle to the West Saxons), St Peter, the Archangel Gabriel, The Theotokos (Mary the Virgin, mother of God), Our Lord Jesus Christ, St. John the Forerunner, the Archangel Michael, St Paul and finally St. Swithun, this last a ‘prototype’. This photograph shows the five icons on the right. See image numbers 2WJWRWK and 2WJWRWA for the other icons. These Icons occupy bays in a decorated Early English screen in the middle of which lies the ‘Holy Hole’ a small early Gothic arch leading to a passage along which pilgrims were able to crawl so as to approach the reliquary containing the relics of St. Swithun (852– 863 CE) , translated from the Old Minster in 1093, which itself lay just behind the high altar.

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Size: 5052px × 3368px
Location: Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire, Winchester, England, UK
Photo credit: © Gillian Pullinger / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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