Cathedral Guide the TOWER Join a Tour to Explore the Roof Spaces and Tower, with Breathtaking Views Across Salisbury and up Into the Famous Spire

GB CLIMB Tower Tours Cathedral Guide THE TOWER Join a tour to explore the roof spaces and tower, with breathtaking views across Salisbury and up into the famous spire. Tours take place most days and last approximately 90 mins. More information, start times Britain’s finest and bookings at the donations desk. 13th Century Cathedral Magna Carta MAKE The Chapter House, with its beautiful ribbed vault, is SURE YOU home to the best preserved of four surviving original ‘Welcome to Salisbury Cathedral, an SEE… Magna Carta sealed by King John in 1215. Written in international symbol of Christianity, abbreviated medieval Latin on vellum, the document and a beautiful and historic building. set down for the first time the relationship between the King and his subjects and their rights. The Magna Carta’s We hope you will enjoy your visit and significance in the democratic world endures today, take away many rich memories.’ inspiring documents from the United States Constitution to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. June Osborne, Dean of Salisbury

Free guided tours Services Discover 750 years of history with one of our Daily 07.30 Morning Worship with Holy Communion volunteer guides or explore by yourself following 17.30 Choral Evensong our recommended route. There is much to see, Sunday 08.00 Holy Communion including… 09.15 Mattins 10.30 Sung Eucharist with Sermon • Britain’s tallest spire, 123m (404ft) 16.30 Choral Evensong • Finest of only four surviving original Magna Carta (1215) Salisbury Cathedral is a dynamic working church and is the mother church of the Diocese of Salisbury. You are welcome to join in our services • Largest and perhaps the most beautiful and we ask you to respect our hourly prayers. St. Michael’s Chapel in Cathedral Close in Britain the South Transept and the Chapel of St. Edmund and St. Thomas in the • World’s oldest mechanical working North Transept are reserved for quiet prayer. The Church of England is clock (1386) part of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Earliest surviving complete choir stalls Choral Evensong provides the opportunity for all to experience the • beautiful sound of the Cathedral Choir (visiting choirs sing in their in Britain (c. 1236) absence). Britain’s largest medieval Cloisters • Contact information Find out more with one of our illustrated souvenir guidebooks, starting at £2, available at the Visitor enquiries: 01722 555120 / [email protected] donations desk and in the Cathedral shop. Visitor Services 33 The Close Salisbury Wiltshire SP1 2EJ

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10 1 Model of Cathedral - Tower Tour starting point. 1197 The Close was first laid out 11 2 Medieval Clock (1386): The world’s oldest working clock – it has no face and only 1215 Trinity 12 strikes the hours. It was housed in a separate bell tower until 1789. Chapel Magna Carta agreed at Runnymede 3 Font (2008): This font was designed by William Pye and is used for baptisms. The consecration marks made by the Archbishop of Canterbury are still visible. 1220 Foundation stones are laid Altar 4 Cope Chest: A 13th Century chest for storing copes (ecclesiastical robes). for Cathedral 9 1250-1266 5 Tomb of William Longespée (1226): The first person buried here, present when Cloisters enlarged, Chapter the foundations of this Cathedral were laid. He was a half brother of King John and Morning House and West Front completed Chapel one of the advisers on the formulation of Magna Carta. 1258 8 Vestry Consecration of Cathedral 7 6 Spire Crossing: The central point of the Cathedral. The weight (6,500 tons) of the Quire tower and spire directly above has visibly bent the supporting columns and shifted 1310-1330 the tip of the spire 75cm out of alignment. Tower and Spire added South Quire Aisle South Quire 1386 13 7 Memorial Glass Prism to artist Rex Whistler engraved by his brother Laurence. 14 15 Medieval Clock first documented North Quire Aisle North Quire 8 Quire: The 106 original stalls, one for each canon and vicar, are intricately carved 1534-1535 Chapter House and date from 1236 – the earliest complete set in England. The pipes of the Willis Church of England separated North Transept South Transept 6 Organ (1876) can also be seen. The 19th Century painting on the vaulting above is from Rome by Henry VIII based on the original medieval designs. 1640s English Civil War, during 5 9 Audley Chapel (1524): Built as a chantry chapel for prayer for the soul of which the Cathedral sustained Restaurant Bishop Edmund Audley. The stone altar and the statue of the Virgin in it were some damage destroyed in 1548. 1789-1792 James Wyatt restoration: 10 Prisoners of Conscience Window (1980): Designed by Gabriel Loire and churchyard cleared, bell tower dedicated to prisoners of conscience throughout the world. An Amnesty Nave demolished, vaulting South Nave Aisle North Nave Aisle International candle always burns in the corner of the Trinity Chapel. lime-washed hiding medieval 4 painting, most medieval 11 Site of Shrine Tomb of Bishop Osmund (died 1099): One of three tombs brought 3 glass removed 16 here for reburial in 1226 from the previous Cathedral at Old Sarum. Osmund was North Porch 1862-1878 Cloisters made a saint in 1457. Gilbert Scott restoration: new sculptures on West Front, 12 Hertford Monument: The tomb of Edward Seymour and Lady Catherine Grey. 2 Shop medieval painting reproduced Catherine was sister to Lady Jane Grey, Queen of England for nine days in 1553 on vaulting in Quire before her execution in 1554, aged 17. 1 1876 13 Mompesson Tomb (1627): This highly decorated tomb unusually faces west as a Willis organ installed VISITOR ENTRANCE/EXIT Start here consequence of it once being located on the opposite side of the aisle. 1980 Prisoners of Conscience 14 Chapter House: Built in the 1260s as the meeting place for ‘Chapter’, the window installed Cathedral’s governing body. The medieval carved frieze around the walls depicts West Front 1985 scenes from the Old Testament. Major Repair Programme Monkey, Cricket and Cat started: expected completion : see overleaf. An unlikely combination of creatures but you’ll find them all in the Cathedral. The monkey, if you can spot 15 Magna Carta (1215) 2018 it, resides high up in the South Quire Aisle, poised to hurl a nut at those entering the Vestry. The cricket decorates an arm rest at the north west end of the Quire stalls while the cat is a piece of medieval graffiti 16 Cloisters: The largest of any Cathedral in Britain. They are unusual in that they 2008 on the plinth in the Cloisters opposite the Restaurant entrance. Perhaps an ancestor of Wolfie, the modern have never been part of a monastic foundation but were designed for processions Our 750 year celebration day cathedral cat? and as a place for reading and relaxation. – new Font installed PHOTOGRAPHY is welcomed in the Cathedral except in the Chapter House or during services.