North Aisle of Winchester Cathedral Burial Place of Jane Austen · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: North Aisle of Winchester Cathedral Burial Place of Jane Austen
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain; Winchester
Description: Here we see the north aisle of Winchester Cathedral. Jane Austen was buried in this cathedral after her death on 18 July 1817. The cathedral is in Winchester, Hampshire where Austen spent most of her life. The current cathedral is a Gothic cathedral. The first cathedral on this site was begun ca. 1079, but the major renovations that rejuvenated it in the gothic style took place between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. Austen’s grave is under the floor of the north aisle of the nave, with a simple gravestone which records her personal virtues and stoicism but does not mention her writing. In 1872 a brass plaque was put up on the north side aisle, and an illustrated exhibition detailing Austen’s life and work is displayed beside her grave. By 1900 a public subscription was begun to pay for a memorial window above the brass plaque.
Image Creator: anonymous (engraver)
Type: StillImage; engraving
Identifier: mta:25674
Language: eng
Source Name: Lady Susan – The Watsons Memoir
Parent Collection: "Lady Susan - The Watsons Memoir", by Jane Austen. Anonymous illustrations (1892); "Lady Susan - The Watsons Memoir", by Jane Austen. Anonymous illustrations (1892)
Image: mta_25674_OBJ.png
Collection: Lady Susan – The Watsons Memoir