St. Thomas Street, Winchester

A watercolour by Cowern from 1941, depicting St. Thomas Street in Winchester, shows a churchyard enclosed by a railed wall and shaded by overhanging trees on the left, while the right side presents an empty, slightly dilapidated street leading toward a distant cupola. Part of the 'Recording Britain' collection, the work was created under a wartime scheme that employed artists to document places and buildings across England, Wales, and Scotland, aiming to preserve a record of the changing national landscape during the Second World War.