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Festival of Flowers

September 10, 2018 By Mike Sedgwick 5 Comments

Winchester Cathedral held its festival of flowers this weekend. The sensations of colour, architecture and music were overwhelmingly beautiful. You might like to see some pictures of the exhibits. The more natural the environment for the bloom, the more pleasing it is to my eye.

The colour theme of the nave was red and red petals covered the stone floor and red merged to the grey of the stone pillars soaring to the ceiling.

The Nave of Winchester Cathedral

A choir practice was in progress and we enjoyed the wonderful flowing music and harmonies, such a welcome change from the usual Boom boom tish that passes for popular music. There were snatches of the most popular anthem, Zadok the Priest.

A pastoral display

While visitors walked around, evensong began in the chancel and we were treated to more music. There was a reading from Revelations. That was mystical. Revelations, Kerouac’s On The Road and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Kubla Kahn all seem to me to be a part of the ‘Stream of Consciousness’ writing fuelled in most cases by mind-bending substances.

Golden spires

All-in-all it was a wonderful experience and photographs do not fully convey the atmosphere and ambience of the event.

Winchester cathedral flower festival 2018

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About Mike Sedgwick

Retired, almost. Lived in Chandler's Ford for 20 years. Like sitting in the garden with a beer on sunny days. Also reading, writing and flying a glider. Interested in promoting science.

I work hard as a Grandfather and have a part time job in Kandy, Sri Lanka for the winter months. Married to a beautiful woman and between us we have two beautiful daughters and 3 handsome sons.

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  1. Allison Symes says

    September 10, 2018 at 7:51 pm

    What fantastic displays. Thanks for sharing this, Mike. I must try and get along sometime.

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  2. Janet Williams says

    September 14, 2018 at 2:15 pm

    In our family we had this discussion this morning:

    Which cathedral is more famous, Salisbury with a “123m spire”, or Winchester with the longest nave in Europe?

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  3. Mike Sedgwick says

    September 14, 2018 at 3:29 pm

    Winchester is chunky, masculine with big strong columns and some Roman arches. It leans a bit here and there as it was built on a march. Feels cosy and domestic.
    Salisbury is feminine, graceful and elegant. The Purbeck marble is strong, its columns could be made slender. Feels palacial and open.

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    • Janet Williams says

      September 14, 2018 at 3:53 pm

      Yes I love Salisbury Cathedral – the refectory is also graceful. Enjoying lunch there and admiring the spire (as the Russians know it’s 123 metre) is a real treat.

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  4. Mike Sedgwick says

    September 14, 2018 at 3:30 pm

    PS. Should be palatial.
    St Albans claims the longest Nave as well.

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