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Alex Langlands and Hadrian Cook have launched their new book Tales of Two Cities which tells the story of Salisbury and Old Sarum where the city originally started. Alex said: “I’m delighted to have launched Tales of Two Cities: Settlement and Suburb in Old Sarum and Salisbury at Salisbury Museum, in advance of the Festival […]
Tickets to November’s popular light and sound spectacular, Sarum Lights created by Luxmuralis, are now on sale via Salisbury Cathedral’s website. View photos of Sarum Lights 2023 This year‘s show Sarum Lights: Illuminating Art takes visitors on a stunning journey from Baroque Art and the Protestant-Catholic conflicts of the 16th century through to Art Deco […]
Watch the Coronation of Their Majesties The King and The Queen Consort live on the big screen at Salisbury Cathedral and party with Swing Unlimited Big Band afterwards. Salisbury Cathedral is screening the Coronation and the Coronation Procession live from 09.30 on Saturday 6 May. This most historic of Anglican services, which dates back to […]
Luxmuralis’ Sarum Lights: Renaissance brings the works of the great masters to life with jaw-dropping light displays and evocative music at Salisbury Cathedral. From the Botticelli-inspired projection on the West Front to an exploration of Da Vinci’s anatomical sketches and a breath-taking celebration of Renaissance art in the Nave, it promises to be a spellbinding […]
Flo the Falcon, one of the peregrine chicks that fledged from the Cathedral Tower in 2021, has been spotted 90 miles away from home as the crow flies, in Hertford, Hertfordshire. British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) ringer, Nigel Jones contacted the Cathedral peregrine team to let them know that Flo (named for Florence Nightingale to […]
Salisbury-based national charity Horatio’s Garden, which creates and nurtures beautiful, accessible gardens in NHS spinal injury centres, will create its first Main Avenue garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023. Charlotte Harris and Hugo Bugg of award-winning landscape designers Harris Bugg Studio will design the garden, which is sponsored by Project Giving Back. The vision […]
The Vanity of Small Differences, an exhibition of six huge tapestries by the celebrated contemporary artist Grayson Perry, is now open at Salisbury Cathedral. Each of the 2m x 4m tapestries, inspired by William Hogarth’s The Rake’s Progress, charts a stage in the ‘class journey’ made by young Tim Rakewell (a wry reference to Tom […]
The Duchess of Cornwall will introduce the first event of The Daily Mail Chalke Valley History Festival 2022, ‘Rediscovering Women in History’, a discussion between authors Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir. On arrival, The Duchess will be received by HM Lord-Lieutenant of Wiltshire, Mrs Sarah Troughton and welcomed to the Festival by Cllr Tom Hitchings, […]
Stunning private estate to welcome visitors this June in support of national charity Horatio’s Garden
In pictures – filming of Great Expectations in Salisbury
