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Nigel Salisbury. Tim Daykin. Sue Groom. Jonathan Leigh. Lucinda Herklots. Salisbury Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is an Anglican cathedral in the city of Salisbury, England. The cathedral is considered the beau idéal of Early English Gothic design.
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds is an 1823 landscape painting by the English landscape painter John Constable (1776–1837). This image of Salisbury Cathedral, one of England's most famous medieval churches, is one of his most celebrated works, and was commissioned by one of his closest friends, John Fisher, The Bishop of Salisbury. [1]
Salisbury (/ ˈ s ɔː l z b ər i / SAWLZ-bər-ee, locally / ˈ s ɔː z b ər i / SAWZ-bər-ee) is a cathedral city and civil parish in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, [1] at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne.
Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows was painted by John Constable in 1831, three years after the death of his wife, Maria. It is currently on display in London, at Tate Britain, in the Clore gallery. He later added nine lines from The Seasons by the eighteenth-century poet James Thomson that reveal the painting's meaning: that the rainbow is a ...
Salisbury Cathedral is the major example of this style, which is also seen at Wells and Worcester, at the eastern arms of Canterbury, Hereford and Southwark, and the transepts of York. Also of this period is the spectacular façade of Peterborough, and the less grand but harmonious façade of Ripon. [4]
The Salisbury Cathedral clock is a large iron-framed tower clock without a dial, in Salisbury Cathedral, England. Thought to date from about 1386, it is a well-preserved example of the earliest type of mechanical clock, called verge and foliot clocks, and is said to be the oldest working clock in the world, [1] although similar claims are made ...
Salisbury Cathedral, which developed the Sarum Use in the Middle Ages. The Use of Sarum (or Use of Salisbury, also known as the Sarum Rite) is the liturgical use of the Latin rites developed at Salisbury Cathedral and used from the late eleventh century until the English Reformation. [ 1 ] It is largely identical to the Roman Rite, with about ...
Statues. There are 79 figures on the Great West Front. 7 are from the 14th century, of which two were modified in the mid-18th century. [1] 63 were installed between 1867 and around 1871 from the workshops of James Redfern. [2] 5 were installed in the 20th century. 4 were installed in the 21st century.