Salisbury Cathedral (Cathedral Church Of The Blessed Virgin Mary) (Part Five).

Salisbury Cathedral.

Artist: John Constable.

Date: Circa 1825.

This File: 9 December 2014.

User: Tohma

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It was also used for some external shots in the 2010 miniseries based on Follett’s book and was shown as it is today in the final scene. 

Another mention of this Cathedral was made by Jonathan Swift in The Travels of Gulliver, part II, chapter IV, making a comparison between its Spire and the Tower of the main temple of Lorbrulgrud, Brobdingnag’s Capital. 

In 1990, Channel 4 marked the official launch of its NICAM stereo service with a live broadcast of Mahler's 9th Symphony from the Cathedral.[31]

Salisbury Cathedral.

Photo: 7 June 2015.

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Author: JackPeasePhotography

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The Cathedral was the setting for the 2005 BBC television drama Mr. Harvey Lights a Candle, written by Rhidian Brook and directed by Susanna White. 

Kevin McCloud climbed the Cathedral in his programme called Don’t Look Down ! in which he climbed high structures to conquer his fear of heights. 

The Cathedral was the subject of a Channel 4 Time Team programme which was first broadcast on 8 February 2009.

Statuary on The Great West Door of Salisbury Cathedral.

Left to Right: Saint Alphege of Canterbury. An 1868 statue, 

by James Redfern, showing Saint Alphege holding the 

stones used in his Martyrdom; Saint Edmund the Martyr; Saint Thomas of Canterbury (Thomas a’Becket).

Photo: 14 June 2006.

Source: Own work.

Author: Arpingstone

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Throughout its history, there have been several Organs in the Cathedral. Of particular interest are the two fine four-manual instruments, the first by Renatus Harris (1652–1724), which was replaced at the end of the 18th-Century, and the current Organ, whose present fame has eclipsed the reputation of the former.[37]

The four-manual instrument by Harris had been installed in 1710. The abundance of Reed Stops was typical of Harris’s instruments and bears witness to the influence of the classical French Organ. 

The instrument, not only spectacular in style but also of good quality, had remained practically unaltered (beyond occasional repairs) for nearly eighty years, until it was replaced at the same time as the Cathedral was “restored” by James Wyatt between 1789 and 1792: The Bishop had convinced King George III to furnish the Cathedral with a new instrument once the work was complete.[37]

The Cloisters, Salisbury Cathedral.

Photo: 12 August 2014.

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Author: Diego Delso

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This Organ, by Samuel Green, was presented by the King in 1792[38] and was installed on top of the Stone Screen, which, unusually, did not divide the Choir from the Nave, but rather came from an unknown location in the Cathedral.[39] 

The Organ was later taken out and moved to Saint Thomas’s Church.[40] When the new Willis Organ was installed, its distinct sound from fifty-five powerfully-voiced Stops, directly in the Choir with little Casework, was quite a contrast to Green’s more gentle twenty-three-Stop instrument.[37]

The present-day instrument was built in 1877 by Henry Willis & Sons.[41] 

The Cloisters, Salisbury Cathedral.

Photo: 7 November 2007 (original upload date).

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Walter Alcock, who was Organist of the Cathedral from 1916, oversaw a strictly-faithful restoration of the famous Father Willis Organ, completed in 1934,[42] even going to such lengths as to refuse to allow parts of the instrument to leave the Cathedral in case any unauthorised tonal alterations were made without his knowledge.[43] 

Although, Walter Alcock did allow some discrete additions to the original style of the Organ (as well as modernisation of the Organ’s actions) by Henry Willis III, the grandson of Father Willis.[44]

The instrument was extensively restored between 2019 and 2020.[37]

Tour of Salisbury Cathedral.

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PART SIX FOLLOWS.