Day 239/18. The Knights of the Round Table?
The Great Hall of Winchester Castle is one of the finest surviving aisled halls of the 13th century, being around 800 years old.
The artifact known as the "Winchester Round Table", hanging at the far end of the hall bears the names of various knights of Arthur's court and was probably created for a Round Table tournament.The current paintwork is late; it was done by order of Henry VIII of England for Holy Roman Emperor Charles V's 1522 state visit, and depicts Henry himself sitting in Arthur's seat above a Tudor rose.
The table itself is considerably older; dendrochronology calculates the date of construction to 1250–1280—during the reign of Edward I—using timber felled over a period of years.
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