The soaring Gothic reredos known as the Great Screen fills the entire chancel of Winchester Cathedral in this early Stengel collotype — its three tiers of canopied niches packed with medieval statues gazing down at rows of choir stalls below, while above the central crucifix a bold red embossed heraldic shield blazons the arms of Winchester: gules, three castles argent arranged two-and-one with lions passant between, all raised in vivid relief against the monochrome photograph. Winchester Cathedral, begun in 1079, holds the longest nave of any Gothic cathedral in Europe, and the Great Screen itself — installed c. 1470–76 — was famously stripped of its original statues during the Reformation and re-populated with Victorian replacements in the 1880s. The undivided back, the "Inland ½d / Foreign 1d" stamp box, and the Stengel & Co. London imprint all place this card firmly in the pre-1902 UDB era, making it one of the earliest photographic records of the restored screen in postcard form.