Stonehenge
The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall will visit Salisbury on Friday 22 June to support the recovery programme underway in the city following the nerve agent attack earlier in the year. Their Royal Highnesses will meet local businesses and people in the city centre before joining a reception in the Guildhall to […]
On 4 March 2018, Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found unconscious on a public bench in Salisbury, poisoned by a nerve agent.
One of the two peregrine chicks that hatched on Salisbury Cathedral Tower last year has been spotted 81 miles (as the crow flies) away from home. The female peregrine, named Aveline by Cathedral staff, was caught on camera in Floodplain Forest Nature Reserve, Old Wolverton near Milton Keynes, by wildlife photographer and blogger Ashley Beolens, […]
Salisbury Cathedral has launched its new Christmas art installation, Star of Bethlehem, created by coding artist Jayson Haebich. The Star, made by projecting light onto a transparent screen, appears as a morphing geometrical shape, moving slowly and gracefully above the Cathedral’s Spire crossing. Viewers can interact with it, changing its shape and colour via an […]
Overview of the 2016 programme The Festival had around 100 contemporary, heritage and emerging craft makers showcasing and selling their work in the Makers’ Marquee. In addition, there were 18 heritage crafts people providing demonstrations and 11 of those allowed visitors to have a go and make something for themselves. Returning after the success of previous years […]
After more than 10 years away from the mainline, the world’s most famous locomotive, Flying Scotsman, which returned to action earlier this year, visited Salisbury twice this summer, hauling The Cathedrals Express. The train arrived from London Paddington via Westbury. Departing from Salisbury in the afternoon on Saturday 21 and Saturday 28 May, those lucky enough to […]
Returning for a 44th year and taking its inspiration from New Zealand, the Festival will once again fill every corner of the medieval City and surrounding countryside with a thrilling mix of music, comedy, film, theatre, circus, dance, walks, poetry, exhibitions, children’s workshops and street theatre, featuring an outstanding range of high-profile and emerging talent […]
There is a monumental treat in store for visitors to as internationally renowned British sculptor Sophie Ryder brings her latest exhibition to Salisbury Cathedral. Life-sized Minotaurs and Lady Hares have appeared on the Cathedral lawn and cloisters, the Kiss (a 20ft high arch formed by massive clasped hands) straddles the path from the High Street Gate to […]
The Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival has unveiled a taster of the 2016 Festival (now in its 44th year) with a characteristically diverse cultural programme celebrating the very best of music, theatre, dance, circus, film, visual arts, literature and family events. Continuing a four-year journey inspired by Stonehenge and tracing the cardinal points of the […]
Visitors to the Salisbury Museum this summer will be treated to a highly original and fascinating exhibition on JMW Turner. Newly discovered facts and a wealth of material never previously assembled together will revise the traditional outline of Turner’s formative years. ‘Turner’s Wessex: Architecture and Ambition’ will reveal new insights into Turner’s ambitious and innovative […]
