St Catherine's Chapel
St Catherine, Winchestercounty:
Hampshire
The place is described in text Leland 1535-43
- St Catherine's Hill - Winchester parish:
Ther was a very fair chapelle of S. Catarine on an hille scant half a mile without Winchester toun by south. This chapelle was endowid with landes. Thomas Wolsey cardinal causid it to be suppressid, as I hard say.
Minns says:- It was suppressed by Wolsey when Bishop of Winchester for the benefit of his Colleges at Ipswich and Oxford.
Minns says:- Traces of the foundations of this chapel were brought to light on the summit of the hill in 1845, on the occasion of the visit of the British Archaeological Association to Winchester.
