Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Winchester Royal Hotel, our base for the weekend (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The hotel is a unique and most attractive building (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The hotel has a remarkable history (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The Society also stayed at the Royal Hotel on its previous visit in 1991 (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The mediaeval Butter Cross in Winchester High Street (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The former White Horse Inn, now a footwear emporium (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The Sign of the Boot (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Winchester's imposing Victorian Gothic Guildhall (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Winchester City Museum, opened in 1902 and said to be England's oldest purpose-built urban museum outside London (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
In the City Museum, a beautiful Apothecary's cabinet (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
On the top floor of the Museum, the almost complete mosaic floor from a 4th century Roman-British villa at Sparsholt (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Winchester Cathedral: the splendid west front (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Winchester Cathedral: the west front (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The West Door of the Cathedral (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Winchester Cathedral: the longest Gothic nave in Europe (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Jane Austen's grave in Winchester Cathedral - no mention of her books, which were published anonymously during her lifetime (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The later Jane Austen memorial, which notes that she was "known to many by her writings" (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
A few of the many military memorials in the Cathedral (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The memorial to Bernard Capes, an undeservedly forgotten author (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The Cathedral Crypt, which floods in the winter; the statue is 'Sound II' by Anthony Gormley (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
'Sound II', Anthony Gormley's sculpture in the Cathedral Crypt (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
A glorious Gothic screen (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
An unexpected but handsome monument to St Jeanne d'Arc (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The grave of the 9th century Bishop of Winchester, St Swithun (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The memorial to William Walker, the diver who saved the Cathedral (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Cardinal Beaufort's Chantry Chapel (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The memorial to the composer John Tavener (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Bishop Fox's Chantry Chapel (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
The Bishop's Throne (photo by Roger Johnson)
Sherlock Holmes Society of London:
Norman and Early English arches in Winchester Cathedral (photo by Roger Johnson)