The Siege of Winchester in 1141, part of The Anarchy (a civil war) between King Stephen and the Empress Matilda, is an important plot element in the detective novel "An Excellent Mystery", part of the Brother Cadfael chronicles by Edith Pargeter writing as Ellis Peters.
Winchester je glavno mesto v post-apokaliptični znanstvenofantastični seriji Johna Christopherja, "Sword of the Spirits".