What is recorded here
This marble commemorative plaque records: Remember in these cloisters which were finished in his day John Washington of Washington in this County Prior of this Cathedral Church 1416-1446 whose family has won an everlasting name in lands to him unknown
John Washington (1416-1446) was the Prior of Winchester Cathedral and an ancestor of George Washington, the first President of the United States, thus linking medieval English history with the founding of America.
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