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About us
About us
The college was founded in the fourteenth century by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor to Edward III and Richard II.
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Admissions
Admissions
The admission of boys to Winchester at age thirteen is largely in the hands of Housemasters. When a boy is eight years old his name can be registered for entry into the School as a prospective member of a particular boarding House.
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Education
Education
A Winchester education is unique. Our pupils enjoy good teaching and our teachers enjoy the liveliness of bright pupils. Success in examinations is one consequence of this, but we think it more important to encourage boys to love learning.
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Pastoral Care
Pastoral Care
Everything we do at Winchester is an aspect of our pastoral care of the boys; classes, sports teams, clubs and societies. We are a fully resident community and we think of ourselves as a network of friends.
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Support Us
Support Us
Development and Win Coll Soc work together to support the School through fundraising and events for OWs, parents and past parents.
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Community
Community
Although the School is immediately outside the mediaeval city walls of Winchester near to Kingsgate, it has always been a part of the wider community and this is nowhere more evident than in its current geography.
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Enterprises
Enterprises
Winchester College Enterprises is responsible for the use of all College facilities by members of the public outside of term time.
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Register
Register
Complete and submit the online questionnaire for your entry into the Seventh Edition of the Winchester College Register.
Chapel Organ
Return to Audio and Video Content.
Below are two extracts from Malcolm Archer's new Chapel Organ CD. Mr Archer is the School's Organist and Director of Chapel Music. Details of the recording may be found here . It is available at all retail outlets and of course at the School shop, Cornflowers.
The first piece is by the then School organist Samuel Sebastian Wesley (organist in the 1850s). Although nowadays regarded as one of the great organists this country has known he was not much appreciated by the School architect William Butterfield, who went so far as to write, in connection with Wesley's proposal to enlarge and improve the School organ, "I do trust that Dr Wesley will not be listened to about the organ; it is a pity that he is the organist. A building of that size requires only a moderate organ. If the boys would sing and respond one might almost say it requires no organ."
The second piece is by Malcolm Archer, the School's Organist and Director of Chapel Music. The 'Air', from which the variations stem, is an original tune written in the old style. The work was first performed in 2006.