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The cathedral is apparently the inspiration for William Golding's novel The Spire, in which the fictional Dean Jocelin makes the building of a cathedral spire his life's work. The construction of the cathedral is an important plot point in Edward Rutherfurd 's historical novel Sarum , which explores the historical settlement of the Salisbury area.
Salisbury Cathedral: 123 404 Salisbury, Wiltshire: Tallest church in the United Kingdom, amongst the tallest medieval churches in the world. [1] 2 St Paul's Cathedral: 111 366 City of London: London's tallest structure from 1710 to 1962; previous tallest in London until Great Fire of London. [2] 3 Liverpool Anglican Cathedral: 101 331 Liverpool
The spire of Salisbury Cathedral is of this type and is the tallest masonry spire in the world, remaining substantially intact since the 13th century. Other spires of this sort include the south spire of Chartres Cathedral, and the spires of Norwich Cathedral, Chichester Cathedral and Oxford Cathedral.
A brave worker scaled the UK's tallest church spire to change its lightbulbs from more than 400ft in the air. Gary Price, Clerk of Works at Salisbury Cathedral in Wiltshire, climbed 332 steps to ...
Salisbury Cathedral is visited by around 250,000 people each year and boasts the tallest spire in the country which stands at 123 metres.
Lincoln with its vast façade and three towers, the tallest being over 80 metres (270 ft), rises majestically from a steep hill above the town. Salisbury Cathedral with its "faultless spire" [4] constitutes one of the iconic views of England, made famous by the landscape painter John Constable. In the north of England, Durham makes a ...
Central spire (built in the mid-19th century) destroyed in the April 2019 fire 90.0 m (295 ft) Cathedral of Toledo: 1440: Toledo Spain 90.0 m (295 ft) Coventry Cathedral: 1433: Coventry United Kingdom: The spire was the only part of the cathedral that survived intact when it was bombed in 1940 90.0 m (295 ft) St Colman's Cathedral: 1919: Cobh ...
These include St Peter's Basilica, Notre-Dame de Paris, Cologne Cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral, Antwerp Cathedral, Prague Cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral, the Basilica of Saint-Denis, Santa Maria Maggiore, the Basilica of San Vitale, St Mark's Basilica, Westminster Abbey, Saint Basil's Cathedral, Antoni Gaudí's incomplete Sagrada Família and the ...