site unseen : Rose Window, Winchester Palace

The Independent - London | August 8, 1995| | Copyright

We all love a good juicy story that features a randy clergyman with straying hands. The recent events in Lincoln prompted some newspapers to offer their readers a "list of shame", cataloguing past clerics who have been caught out engaging in unspiritual behaviour.

When exposed in public, most straying churchmen offer profuse words of apology. But not all. In particular, successive bishops of Winchester once made huge and unrepentant piles of money from a string of brothels which they owned in Southwark in medieval and Tudor times.

The girls were even called "Winchester Geese" in honour of ...

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