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The Round Table, Great Hall, Winchester - Although now known to have been constructed in the 14th Century, and repainted in its present form for King Henry VIII, the table has for centuries been venerated by generations of tourists as the mysterious table of the 'Once and Future King' Arthur. The names of the 24 knights are written around the edge of the 5.5 metre diameter table, weighing 1200kg, surmounted by King Arthur on his throne. The first written accounts of the Arthurian story appeared in 1130 in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'History of the Kings of Britain', which maintains that Merlin had the 15-year-old Arthur crowned at nearby Silchester. However, the first mention of the Round Table is Robert Wace's Roman de Brut (1155), which says that Arthur seated his knights at a round table so that all should be equal. In Thomas Malory's Morte D'Arthur, the table is a wedding gift to Arthur from Guinevere's father, Leodegrance.
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A fantastic old gas light outside the Great Hall, Winchester
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The Castle, Winchester
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A group of people protest beneath the
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Detail of a railing outside Winchester Cathedral
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Winchester Cathedral. Detail of an inscription on the exterior wall that says in Latin - His decem adminicvlis svffvlta est ecclesla A.D. MCMXII
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