Plans for a life-sized sculpture of novelist Jane Austen outside Winchester Cathedral have been approved. Commemorating the 250th anniversary of her birth, the statue will feature the literary ...

Winchester Cathedral has defended its plan to put up a £100k sculpture of author Jane Austen after critics complained that the project would turn the area into a kind of “Disneyland”.

IT’s good news that Winchester College will be opening up the house in College Street where Jane Austen spent her final days ...

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However, Jane Austen's burial place is in Winchester Cathedral, as well as a beautiful brass tribute on the wall adjacent to her tomb. Many visitors from the world over visit Winchester Cathedral to ...

When Jane Austen died in Winchester in 1817, she was attended by Dr Giles Lyford, nephew of the family’s Dr John Lyford in Basingstoke. There is a memorial to Giles in the little church of St ...

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In addition, 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth. The Hampshire-born world-famous author died in College Street in Winchester and is buried in Winchester Cathedral.