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| Poultry Cross in Salisbury |
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| Salisbury B&B |
We arrived in Salisbury Wednesday evening and after a lot of confusion navigating the streets of Salisbury, our B&B hostess, Suzanne, finally guided us to our resting spot. Our room at the B&B was like a luxury suite compared to the cracker-box hotel room in London and we were really looking forward to a comfortable night's sleep! We spent the evening walking around Salisbury, enjoying the beautiful flower baskets hanging on the lampposts. Our plan for finding a nice late-evening dinner turned into a Subway sandwich as we learned that everything closes or stops serving food quite early in the evening.
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| Salisbury Cathedral Exterior |
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| Salisbury Cathedral Nave |
The next morning (Thursday) we enjoyed a delicious breakfast at the B&B, packed up the car, and headed for Salisbury Cathedral. What an AMAZING place! By looking at the photos below you can get an idea of the immense size of this place. It was truly a "living cathedral"--a very old building, but many newer elements such as paraments and the breathtaking baptismal font (see photo). It was a large reflecting pool style font which was pouring water from it's four tapered corners, but even with the strong flow of water spilling form the corners into grates in the floor, the surface of the water was like glass!
Our tour guide at Salisbury Cathedral was church member and volunteer, Trudy. She was wonderful! She filled our visit with a lot of information, personal stories, and humor. The conclusion of our tour brought us into the Chapter House where an actual copy of the Magna Carta is on display.
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| Salisbury Cathedral Font |
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