Category Archives: Wessex
Line of Cerdic of Wessex
Line of Cerdic of Wessex Buried … Continue reading
The Kingdom of Wessex – Royal Burial Sites
Worcester John … Continue reading
Sherborne Abbey
A view of the Abbey and of the Nave can be viewed through these links. Below left: the High Altar, and right: the organ case. Below left: the burial site, and right: the plaque to Kings Ethelbald and … Continue reading
Wimborne Minster
Photographs of Wimborne Minster can be viewed through this link. Below left: the memorial plaque (said to be a copy of the original coffin plate) to King Ethelred 866-871. Below right: part of the organ case with its Chamade de … Continue reading
Winchester – King Alfred the Great
King Alfred the Great Below: after several moves (the technical expression is ‘translation[s]) is the last resting place of King Alfred the Great at the east end in the churchyard of St Bartholomew’s Church, Winchester. Although his ‘whereabouts’ is … Continue reading
King Alfred
Recent excavations have revealed the foundations of Hyde Abbey, Winchester, and information at my disposal regarding the burial of King Alfred seems relevant here. A summary is given below: Alfred’s first recorded burial site in 901 was in the Old … Continue reading
Westminster Abbey – King Edward the Confessor – 1042-1066
In 1993, perhaps one of the most amazing documents to come into my possession was a series of extracts from the records of The Abbey. One concerned the remains of Edward The Confessor and recalls how in 1102 (the King … Continue reading
Royal Resting Places 