After we'd been to Winchester Cathedral we visited the Great Hall, which is virtually all that is left of Winchester Castle.
This amazing building has seen lots of important historic events, and was in use as a court room as recently as the 1970s, but is best known as the home of the Round Table.
We now know this isn't the original Round Table from the Arthurian legend but it's still very old.
There are more modern works of art too: a big statue celebrating Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee and a smaller, but very good, engraving of our present Queen celebrating her Diamond Jubilee in 2012.
Alongside is Queen Eleanor's beautiful Garden
And here I am exploring the only other part of Winchester Castle which survives:
Barnaby
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