Our longest and shortest Deans
David Conner retired after 25 years, making him the seventh-longest-serving Dean of Windsor. Who were the longest- and shortest-serving?
Tag: English Civil War
Charles Sunnibank, Canon of Windsor and Rector of Great Haseley
CAROLUS SUNNIBANK S.T.D. HUJUS ECCLESIE RECTOR WINDSORIENSIS CANONICUS QUOD MORTALE HABUIT HIC DEPOSUIT 14 OCT. 1638 VENI CITO DOMINE JESU.(Charles Sunnibank D.D. Rector of this Church, Canon of Windsor, laid down here his mortal body 14 Oct 1638. Come quickly, ...
Debtors and Royalists: the Dungeon of the Curfew Tower
Between 1227 and 1230 three towers were built along the western Castle wall at the direction of William de Milleriis for the total cost of £432 14s 4d. Their completion marked the entire replacement of the wooden defences of the ...
Peter Mews: a warrior priest in interesting times
Few of Windsor’s many canons are likely to have heard the sound of cannon fired in anger. One who certainly did was the “Christian soldier” Peter Mews, who held the canonry of the 7th stall from 1662 to 1673, and ...
The funeral of Charles I
The English Civil War has sparked controversy and debate for over 350 years. One little known area is not so much the death of King Charles I, for that has been well recorded, but the circumstances of his burial. Whilst ...
The King’s Evil
From its very early days, St George’s Chapel possessed an extensive range of treasures, in the form of lavishly embroidered and jeweled vestments, relics and their elaborate containers, altar vessels in rich gold and silver, and many other jewels and ...
How a Canadian helped save the West Window
The West Window, situated in the Nave of St. George’s Chapel, is one of the most memorable aspects of any visit to the Chapel. Thought to be the third largest stained glass window in the country, it contains seventy-five figures ...
Hobbes’ Leviathan
The full title of this book is Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, and it was first published in 1651. Titled after the biblical Leviathan, an enormous sea monster representing chaos and ...