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

 

Salisbury Cathedral.

Artist: John Constable.

Date: Circa 1825.

This File: 9 December 2014.

User: Tohma

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It is recorded that in 1463 John Kegewyn was Organist of Salisbury Cathedral. Among the notable Organists of more recent times have been a number of composers and well-known performers including: Bertram Luard-Selby, Charles Frederick South, Walter Alcock, David Valentine Willcocks, Douglas Albert Guest, Christopher Dearnley, Richard Godfrey Seal, and the BBC presenter Simon Lole.

Salisbury Cathedral Choir holds annual auditions for boys and girls, aged seven to nine years old, for scholarships to Salisbury Cathedral School, which is housed in the former Bishop’s Palace.

The Boys’ Choir and the Girls’ Choir (each sixteen strong) sing alternate daily Evensong and Sunday Matins and Eucharist Services throughout the school year.

Salisbury Cathedral.

The Great West Front.

Photo: 25 October 2017.

Source: Own work.

Author: Minnie Bannister

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There are also many additional Services during the Christian year, particularly during Advent, Christmas, Holy Week, and Easter.

The Advent “From Darkness to Light” Services are the best known. Choristers come from across the Country and some are boarders.

Six Lay Vicars (adult men) comprise the rest of the Choir, singing tenor, alto and bass parts. 

In 1993, the Cathedral was the venue for the first broadcast of Choral Evensong (the long-running BBC Radio 3 programme) to be sung by a girls’ Cathedral Choir.[45]

Reredos at Salisbury Cathedral.

Ostensibly the work of C.E. Buckeridge.

Adoration of the Magi, formerly in the Lady Chapel.

Photo: 12 January 2019.

Source: Own work.

Author: ShannonMArthur

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The Cathedral previously employed five Cathedral Constables (known as “Close Constables”), whose duties mainly concerned the maintenance of law and order in the Cathedral Close.

They were made redundant in 2010 as part of cost-cutting measures and replaced with “Traffic Managers”.[46]

The Constables were first appointed when the Cathedral became a “Liberty” in 1611 and survived until the introduction of Municipal Police Forces in 1835 with the Municipal Corporations Act.[47]

Rib Vault Ceiling above Clerestory windows, 

in Salisbury Cathedral.

Photo: 24 June 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Ukexpat

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In 1800, they were given the power, along with the City Constables, to execute any Justices’ or Court Orders requiring the conveyance of prisoners to or from the County Jail (at Fisherton Anger, then outside the City of Salisbury) as if it were the City Jail (and, in so doing, they were made immune from any legal action for acting outside their respective jurisdictions).[48]

The right of the Cathedral, as a “Liberty”, to maintain a separate Police Force was conclusively terminated by the Local Government Act 1888.[49][50]

Between 1864 and 1953, there were records of Peregrine Falcons being present at the Cathedral. More Falcons arrived in 2013, and have been hatching every year since, with their nests on the Cathedral’s Tower.[51]

World War One Cross. This Cross was placed on the grave 

of a Soldier Killed-in-Action on The Western Front in 1917. 

It is now mounted on the wall by the Visitors Entrance at Salisbury Cathedral. The Plaque reads: “This Cross was 

placed over the grave of Colonel Frank A. Symons CMG DSO, Army Medical Service, who was Killed-in-Action at Athies, France, 30 April 1917. He was buried in Saint Nicholas Cemetery, Arras, France, 1 May 1917.

Photo: 25 April 2009.

Source: From geograph.org.uk

Author: william

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SALISBURY CATHEDRAL.