GNASHING of teeth in the PR department at the cathedral and the city council.
The highly-respected national magazine Current Archaeology has devoted a feature to the cathedral and the City Museum.
Journalist Lucia Marchini posted the article recently which is in the current issue of the magazine, available across the UK.
The magazine article was obviously put together before the lockdown but it means that thousands of readers who may have been interested in visiting will not be able to do so for some time.
Ms Marchini commences with “A visit to Winchester’s cathedral and City Museum offers a chance to explore the ecclesiastical life and early days of this historic Hampshire city.”
Except of course it doesn’t at the moment.
She tours the cathedral, visiting the Kings and Scribes exhibition that opened last year and catching up on the research into the mortuary chests, said to contain the bones of several Anglo-Saxon kings and queens.
The article “explores the building’s fascinating long history and Winchester’s prominent place in English history (as Alfred the Great’s capital).”
This is free publicity worth its weight in gold.
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