Winchester College Chapel Choir Winchester College Chapel Choir Winchester College Chapel Choir is a renowned British choir that sings in the Chapel of Winchester College. When William of Wykeham founded Winchester College in 1382 he made provision for 16 boys called Quiristers to sing the Chapel services. The College has maintained its medieval choral foundation ever since and the choral tradition is still maintained at a high level. The Quiristers, or "Qs" are they are colloquially known, who sing the treble line for the choir, are all awarded choral scholarships at The Pilgrims' School, close to the college itself. They also sing a good
Winchester College that the school had treated the matter "very seriously" and that no boy was responsible for the "exam irregularity". The information was widely distributed resulting in their papers being disallowed. As with a number of other prominent independent schools in the South of England, a locomotive of the Southern Railway V Class was named after Winchester College. The second locomotive of the class, No. 901 "Winchester" was, like the other 39 V Class engines, constructed by the Southern at Eastleigh Works, not far away from the city of Winchester itself, and entered service in 1930. "Winchester" was one of those