Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Saturday morning: on our way to the Great Hall we pass this stationer's shop, with an attractive hanging sign (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The Westgate; on the right is Mottisfont Court, Operations Headquarters of Hampshire Constabulary (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The Westgate, one of two surviving mediaeval city gates; above the gate is a small museum (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
We meet our guide Johanna outside the city's Law Courts (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Today's Law Courts, a 1970s building, replaced the Victorian courthouse where Grace Dunbar was tried and acquitted (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
At the mediaeval Great Hall, the only surviving part of Winchester Castle (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Calvert Markham listens closely to our guide, Johanna; Marcus Geisser's attention is elsewhere (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Johanna explains that trials were held in the Great Hall before the Victorian courthouse was built (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The Round Table hanging on the west wall has no direct connection with Arthurian legend; it dates from the reign of Edward I (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The Round Table was repainted in 1522 by order of Henry VIII for the state visit of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Our group assembled by Alfred Gilbert's statue of Queen Victoria (photo courtesy of Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The Chairman's party visits the Great Hall (photo by Rakshita Patel)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Admiring the Victorian stained glass in the Great Hall (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The wrought steel gates were installed in the east wall to commemorate the marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981 (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The Black Swan Hotel, where Holmes and Watson met Violet Hunter, was demolished in the early 1930s and replaced by Black Swan Buildings (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The carved sign is a replica of the one that indicated the Black Swan Hotel (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Entering the Cathedral precincts (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Flying buttresses along the south wall of Winchester Cathedral (photo by Rakshita Patel)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
This beautiful house in the Cathedral Close is currently unoccupied (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The Deanery, originally the residence of the Prior of St Swithun's Priory; in front is the Deanery Bookstall (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
This Elizabethan building, Cheyney Court, served as the Bishop's Courthouse until 1835 (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Kingsgate is the other survivor of Winchester's mediaeval city gates (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Kingsgate: above the gate is St Swithun's Church (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Jane Austen House at no. 8 College Street is the house in which the great author died in 1817 (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Winchester College was founded by Bishop William of Wykeham in 1382; this is the Headmaster's House (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Winchester College is often open to visitors - but not today (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Winchester College from College Street (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Winchester College from College Street (photo by Rakshita Patel)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
College Street (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The Bishop's Palace, Winchester (photo by Roger Johnson)
