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St Swithun's School
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September 17, 2019
St Swithin’s name is well known through its link with the weather. An ancient rhyme predicts the impact of the elements on his dedicated day, the 15 July… St Swithin’s Day, if thou doest rain / For forty days it will remain: St Swithin’s Day, if thou be fair / For forty days twill rain nae mair. According to legend, Swithun tutored the young King Alfred the Great and took him to Rome. Another legend says is that he built the first stone bridge over the River Itchen that runs through Winchester (where the City Mill & Bishop on the Bridge local pub is currently located). His most famous miracle tells of a simple act of human kindness to a poor woman. When crossing this bridge, she was jostled and dropped her basket of eggs. The saint took pity on her – and made her broken eggs whole. One source claims that when Swithun died, he asked to be buried out of doors of the Cathedral ‘where the feet of ordinary men could pass over him.’ This, and a possible mistranslation of a medieval text, may have given rise to the story that when the Swithun's bones were moved inside the Old Minster on his feast day, 15 July 971, a terrible storm broke out, lasting for 40 days and nights. This is the basis of the popular belief that if it rains on 15 July, it will rain for 40 days. Sadly, this claim has no basis in fact. His remains were kept at Winchester until 1538, when King Henry VIII decreed that his shrine be destroyed. Those responsible reported, “There was in it no piece of gold, nor any ring or true stone, but all great counterfeits. Nevertheless we think these… will amount to near 2,000 marks”. Today the cathedral holds an annual festival to commemorate its long standing links with the saint. St Swithun's School, set in 45 acres is a leading independent and boarding girls school.
St Swithin’s name is well known through its link with the weather. An ancient rhyme predicts the impact of the elements on his dedicated day, the 15 July… St Swithin’s Day, if thou doest rain / For forty days it will remain: St Swithin’s Day, if thou be fair / For forty days twill rain nae mair. A…
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Alresford Road
Winchester, England