St Swithun-upon-Kingsgate Church

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The church on the gate was first recorded as a fire in 1264. It was reconstructed and restored at different times over the centuries. The church built above the medieval gates was common, but only a few survive today. In Anthony Trollope's novel The Warden, St. Sveston Church has a literary character in St. Cuthbert. Little is known about Swissun's life. He was born in Winchester, then the capital of Wessex, around 800 AD. Legend has it that St. Swiston miraculously repaired the mashed egg after meeting an old woman on the City Bridge, who was shocked and left her in a basket, died on July 2, 862 and was buried outside the old cathedral as he asked. The old church was expanded in the 10th century and translated the relics of St. Swinton on July 15, 971. This time the rainfall was very large, and the traditional saying is that if it rains on the St. Swinton Festival on July 15, it will rain for the next forty days.