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In the last quarter of the 14th century the Perpendicular Style was used for the first and last time in the architecture of great cathedrals. New naves were built in Canterbury and Winchester. In Winchester Cathedral the rebuilding of the nave around 1360 had begun with the west front. After the death of the first patron, the nave was left unfinished in 1366, and it was not until 1394 that work began again under Bishop William Wykeham who employed as his master mason William Wynford, mason in the royal household.
Wynford did not dismantle the Romanesque nave but artistically remodeled the original fabric of the building instead. The new structures were sculpted out of the old masonry.
The photo shows the nave looking southeast.On the right the funerary chapel of Bishop Wykeham (died 1404) can be seen.
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