His reputation for learning was such as to obtain for him, soon after his arrival, the degree of doctor of divinity from both universities, and in 1690 he received from Bishop Gilbert Burnet the more substantial honour of the treasurership and a canonry in Salisbury Cathedral.

* Building of the Salisbury Cathedral begins.

Some time between 1219 and 1222 he was appointed vicar of the parish of Calne in Wiltshire and treasurer of Salisbury Cathedral.

Heath's monument in Salisbury Cathedral.

Three days later his ashes were interred in Salisbury Cathedral.

In January 2006, it was announced that Heath had left £ 5 million in his will, most of it to a charitable foundation to conserve his 18th century house, Arundells, opposite Salisbury Cathedral as a museum to his career.

After becoming a teacher at a comprehensive school for two years, Giles later returned to teaching, becoming a Maths master at Salisbury Cathedral School, and later, Northcliffe Preparatory School, Nursling, Southampton.

In English cathedrals transepts tend to project boldly and there may be two of them, as at Salisbury Cathedral, though this is not the case with lesser churches.

Salisbury Cathedral has the tallest spire in England.

Smaller churches usually have just one tower, but this may also be the case at larger buildings, such as Salisbury Cathedral or Ulm Minster, which has the tallest spire in the world, slightly exceeding that of Lincoln Cathedral, the tallest which was actually completed during the medieval period, at.

Salisbury Cathedral is famous for the beauty and simplicity of its Lancet Gothic, known in England as the Early English Style.

The Paschal candle of Salisbury Cathedral was said to have been 36 feet tall.

* Salisbury Cathedral

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There are three other surviving copies ; two at the British Library and one at Salisbury Cathedral.

Lincoln was only the second Cathedral in the country to adopt a separate girls ' choir, after Salisbury Cathedral, and remains one of few who provide exactly the same musical opportunities and equal weekly singing duties to both girls and boys.

The first Salisbury Cathedral was built on the hill by St Bishop Osmund between 1075 and 1092.

Salisbury Cathedral from the Cathedral Close

Great West Front of Salisbury Cathedral

* The fictitious Kingsbridge Cathedral in TV miniseries, The Pillars of the Earth ( 2010 ) based on a historical novel by the same name by Ken Follett is modeled on the cathedrals of Wells and Salisbury.

The final aerial shot of the series is of Salisbury Cathedral.

* The novel The Spire by William Golding tells the story of the building of the spire on Salisbury Cathedral.

" When the Republic of South Africa ( Transvaal ) formally rejected the notion of British suzerainty as allegedly described by the peace treaty of 1881, Chamberlain and Balfour prompted Salisbury to initiate discussions with Portugal regarding Delagoa Bay.

When Roberts formally annexed the Transvaal on 3 September, the Salisbury ministry, emboldened by the apparent victory in South Africa, asked for the dissolution of Parliament, with an election set for October.

Salisbury became the leader of the Conservative members of the House of Lords, though the overall leadership of the party was not formally allocated.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte, formally in Latin Dioecesis Carolinana, is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the southern United States comprising the counties of western North Carolina divided into ten vicariates named for and administered from Albemarle, Asheville, Boone, Gastonia, Greensboro, Hickory, Mecklenburg, Salisbury, Smoky Mountain, Winston-Salem.

The first bridge known to have been covered wholly or in part, -- and perhaps the most interesting one, connected Newbury ( now Newburyport ) with Salisbury Point.

This is known through the writings of John of Salisbury, who is thought to have been a near exact contemporary student of Alan of Lille.

He went on to find a similar penetration of volcanic rock through sedimentary rock near the centre of Edinburgh, at Salisbury Crags, adjoining Arthur's Seat: this is now known as Hutton's Section.

The known biographers are John of Salisbury, Edward Grim, Benedict of Peterborough, William of Canterbury, William fitz Stephen, Guernes of Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Robert of Cricklade, Alan of Tewkesbury, Benet of St Albans, and Herbert of Bosham.

Fearing arrest for treason, York and his most prominent allies, the Nevilles ( York's brother in law, the Earl of Salisbury and his son, the Earl of Warwick, later known as the " Kingmaker "), finally resorted to armed force in 1455.

before 1982 known as Salisbury ) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe.

They originally named the city Fort Salisbury after the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, then British prime minister, and it subsequently became known simply as Salisbury.

* Salisbury, Maryland is the county seat of Wicomico County and the lower peninsula's only urbanized area and is known as the Crossroads of Delmarva.

The Eastern Shore is also known for its poultry farms, the most well-known of which is Perdue Farms, founded in Salisbury, Maryland.

* Iona Island ( New York ), once known as " Salisbury Island "

* Benjamin Salisbury ( born 1980 ), an American actor most well known for playing the role of Brighton Sheffield on the television sitcom The Nanny

The logic of this was inescapable, and in 1220 the city of New Sarum, now known as Salisbury, was founded on a great meadow called ' Myrifield '.

One of the first known uses of " Sarum " is on the seal of Saint Nicholas Hospital, Salisbury, which was in use in 1239.

Although commonly known as Salisbury Cathedral, the official name is the Cathedral of Saint Mary.

The South Westbury section is also ( appropriately ) known as Salisbury.

* The Neolithic monument Stonehenge is built in England near Salisbury, Wiltshire, comprising a circular earthwork 97. 5 m / 320 ft in diameter with 56 small pits around the circumference ( later known as the Aubrey holes ).

Fiennes was briefly educated in the Republic of Ireland and then at Swan School For Boys ( now known as Leehurst Swan School, following a merger with another school ), an independent school in Salisbury, before passing his 11 + exam and continuing to Bishop Wordsworth's School, a voluntary-aided state day grammar school, in the Cathedral Close of the city.

He also travelled throughout Great Britain to view documents, sites, and artefacts for himself: he is known to have visited East Anglia in 1578, Yorkshire and Lancashire in 1582, Devon in 1589, Wales in 1590, Salisbury, Wells and Oxford in 1596, and Carlisle and Hadrian's Wall in 1599.

Settled by the English in 1638 as a part of Salisbury and later as a part of Amesbury around the village of Merrimacport, it was known throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as an agricultural and fishing community, with a small amount of shipbuilding.

Additionally known as Gerrishtown and New Salisbury, the name Salisbury was taken when the town incorporated in 1768.