Salisbury Cathedral
Salisbury Cathedral is a Cathedral of the Old Foundation. The see was founded at Sherborne in 703, moved to Ramsbury in 920, to Sherborne again in 1058, to Old Sarum in 1075, and finally Salisbury in 1228. Park in a city pay car park. There is no compulsory entrance fee but a donation of around £6 or £7 is respectfully requested. I understand photography is allowed
Wiltshire -1  Wiltshire - 2
Ambulatory  Chapel of St Peter & the Apostles Chapel of St Stephen & the Martyrs   Choir - North Aisle Choir - South Aisle  Cloisters  Nave - North Aisle  Nave - South Aisle 
  Nave - West Wall   North Transept South Transept   North East Transept  Trinity Chapel

The Eastern Chapels
Chapel of St Stephen & the Martyrs

 Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford (1621) & Lady Catherine Grey (1563) Recumbent effigies, flanked by kneeling figures of their sons, Edward & Thomas. Marble, probably erected 1625 & attributed to William Wright of London. Marble. He was the son of the Protector Somerset. E. Wall







William Wilton (1523) Chancellor of the Cathedral. Stone tomb chest with Purbeck Marble lid. Heraldry S Wall
Trinity Chapel

Above: Coffin Lid of black Tournai Marble of 11th or 12 C. Brought from Old Sarum. Said to be that of St Osmund (1099) This date appears on this lid but this was added in 16th or 17th century. S Wall
Left:
Bishop John Wordsworth (1911) White marble effigy on black marble tomb chest. Signed: George Frampton (1914) N Wall


Sir Thomas Gorges (1610) and Helena (Schnachenberg, Dowager Marchioness of Northampton) . Bath Stone. Erected in 1635 E.Wall
Chapel of St Peter  & the Apostles

The Ambulatory

Above: Tomb recess with slab 15th century
Purbeck marble coffin lid with cross, 13th century set in the above and possibly that of Bishop Roger N Wall

Right:
Bishop George Moberly (1885) Canopied recess in which coffin lid and effigy. Designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield; executed by Thomas Nicholls S Wall
Other Monuments in the Ambulatory

Clifford Wyndham Holgate (1903)
bronze tablet S Wall
Choir - North Aisle
(Progressing from the east - so the easternmost is the first bay - to the west; the 'fourth bay' is more properly the north east transept)
First Bay
Above Left & Centre: Purbeck marble coffin lid with effigy of bishop (early 13th century); now in 19th century aedicule designed by Scot, the original being destroyed by Wyatt in 1789. Traditionally said to be cenotaph of Bishop Richard Poore, who founded the present cathedral but more likely Bishop Robert de Bingham (1246) , who was responsible for the completion of the choir.
Far right:
Bishop St Clair Donaldson (1936) Relief portrait in bronze by A G Wyton (signed)
Second Bay
The chantry chapel and tomb of Bishop Edmund Audley (1524), exterior from the north choir aisle and interior. The monument was constructed in his lifetime and he was buried beneath the floor. John Fulford RN (1888) Brass on slate slab by Hart, Son, Peard & Co
Third Bay
James Tuchet, Lord Castlehaven (1769) Marble tablet Bishop Roger de Martival (1330) originally thought to be Bishop de Bingham. Purbeck marble slab with indents for brasses; 14th century  stone canopy Henry Parry Liddon (1890) brass cross on marble tablet by Hart, Son, Peard & Co
Fourth Bay
Thomas Bennet (1558) Purbeck. Inscription states he died in 1554. He was precentor and chancellor

Other Monuments in the Fifth Bay
John Lowe (1631) Bencher of Middle Temple. Marble Tablet
Edward Paroissien Eddrup (1905) White marble tablet with gray surround

Robert George Swayne (1901) Alabaster and white marble tablet
Fifth Bay


Said to be Archdeacon George Sydenham (1524) Chaplain to Henry VIII and Archdeacon of Sarum.
Sixth Bay
Seventh Bay
Douglas MacLean (1925) White marble tablet with alabaster frame
Thomas Kingsbury (1899) White marble tablet with gray surround

Below:
Dean Gilbert Kymer (1463) (also said to be that of Bishop Woodville, 1484) Purbeck marble tomb chest with canopy. Top has indent for a brass.
Choir - South Aisle
(Progressing from east to west; the 'fourth bay' is more properly the south east transept)
First Bay
Bishop Walter Kerr Hamilton (1869) Tomb chest and effigy designed by Sir G G Scott; the effigy is of white marble and by the Hon the Rev P B Bouverie  Susan Esther Wordsworth (1894) wife of the Bishop. Inscribed copper tablet with marble frame and mosaic base.
  Second Bay
 
  Right: Samuel Rolleston, archdeacon of Sarum (1766) & James Rolleston MD (1771) Marble tablet with architectural surround
Above: Jacob Pleydell Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor (1930) Tablet
Third Bay


Left & Above: Bishop Giles de Bridport (1262) The aedicule is of stone and Purbeck marble. Inside is the Purbeck coffin surmounted by its lid carved with the figure of the bishop.

Right:
Mary Barnston (1625) Purbeck tablet in stone painted with shields; Also her husband Canon Barnston (1645)


Bishop Simon de Gandavo (1315) Purbeck marble tomb slab with brass indent. Above is a canopy and grille, early 14th century


Above: Herbert Family, Earls of Pembroke (1600-1732) Slate tablet erected 1963
Fourth Bay Fifth Bay Sixth Bay
There are no monuments in this bay

Left: Bishop John Davenant (1641) Marble, attributed to Joshua Marshall
Above:
Bishop John Capon or Salcote (1557) stone tomb chest, paneled with quatrefoils enclosing shields
Right:
Dean George David Boyle (1901) coloured marble tablet


Sir Richard Mompesson (1627) & Katherine (Pagington) Painted stone, repainted in 1964. Probably by the master of the Hertford monument (see above).
Seventh  Bay



Bishop Richard Medford (1407) Secretary to Richard II. Alabaster tomb chest with Purbeck marble top and alabaster effigy; Chilmark stone canopy. Much painting and gilding remain
South-East Transept
This transept has two chapels to the east - see below
(proceeding along the west wall from north to south and then the south wall from west to east)
West Wall
William Chillingworth (1643/44) Erected 1936 by Canon William Lisle Bowles. Gothick by Osmond
Rowney Noel (1786) Dean. Marble tablet with urn
Richard Hooker (1600) Erected 1936 by Canon William Lisle Bowles. Gothick by Osmond
Bishop Seth Ward (1689) Large marble tablet with bust of the Bishop
Canon Seth Ward (1690) Nephew of the above. Oval cartouche
Dean John Clark (1757)  Tablet on plinth. Inscription records friendship with Newton; astronomical and geometrical instruments.
John Jacob MD  & his wife Mary and her sister Frances. They were daughters of Dean Clark above
 
South Wall
Bishop Tomas Burgess (1837) Canopied wall table tomb in 15th century style by Osmond
Mary Ann Moberly (1890) White marble relief signed by E M Roper
Susannah Carpenter (1919) Oval tablet
 
Chapel of St Nicholas
Edith Emily Moberly (1901) Relief tablet
Mathew Marsh (1840) Canopied niche in 14th century style by Osmond
 
Chapel of St Mary Magdalene
William  Lisle Bowles (1850) Gothick tablet by Osmond

North-East Transept

The monument to Thomas Bennet has been described above
 
Bishop Wyville (1375) large brass plate with demi-effigy of a bishop in a stylized fortress with a smaller armed figure on guard at the door below
North Transept
This transept has three chapels to the east

West Wall
(progressing along the west wall from south to north, then along the north wall from west to east)
      

Above from Left to Right: 1) Frederick Webb (1846) and his son Augustus  Frederick Cavendish Webb (1845 - dow Balaclava)  By Osmond. 2) Harris Family from James (1679) to Louisa Margaret (1826) White marble tablet. 3) Sir James Erasmus Philipps ( 1912) & Mary Margaret (1913) Classical tablet, flanked by two niches with figures of St David & St Boniface. 4)  James Harris (1780) Tablet with bas relief of seated female with medallion portrait. By John Bacon. 5) George Lawrence (1861) Tablet with kneeling female figure leaning on urn. By T Gaffin.


Above & Right: James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury (1820) Plinth with life size reclining male figure reading a book. By Francis Chantrey 1823


Above & Left: Richard Jeffries (1887) Bust on plinth. By Margaret Thomas 1892


Above & Right: William Benson Earl (1796) Tablet with figure of a Muse unveiling a Good Samaritan. By John Flaxman


Above: Sarah Hayter (1822) Tablet shaped like sarcophagus by Osmond
Left:
General George Mitchell (1846)Oval medallion by Osmond
Next Left:
John Britton (1857) the Antiquarian. Brass by John Hardman & Co
Far Left:
Revd Edmund Benson (1835) & Ann (1826) Large tablet in Tudor style by Osmond

North Wall


Far Left: Sergeant Major John Michael Peniston (1858) Gothick canopy with tiled niches by Osmond: inscribed brass by Waller
Left & Above: Bishop John Blythe


Above & Right: Sir Richard Colt Hoare Bt (1818) Historian of Wiltshire. Marble by R C Lucas
1841
Capt. Sir Edward Hamilton Westrom Hulse (1915) White marble tablet. James Swayne (1827), Robert Swayn(1865), William Clark Merriman (1877) & Robert William Merriman (1924) All clerks of the peace. Tablet

Chapel of St Edmund of Abingdon
This is the central of the three chapels
Chapel of St Thomas

 
Above: William Long (1818) The figures are of marble and represent Learning and Charity. By John Flaxman Between St Edmund & St Thomas chapels Above left: W G Maton (1835) Stone tablet in Tudor style by Osmond  E Wall
Above right: George Jackson Christian & Wife (1857) Both killed in the Mutiny of the Sepoys

. Also but not shown:
Walter Long (1807) Surgeon. Marble tablet with flanking figures and portrait medallion. Signed by John Flaxman N Wall
  Chapel of St John the Baptist
Other Monuments  
Lettice Cotton (1798) Black, white & gray tablet E Wall
Rev Edward Moore (1812) & Mary (1822) White tablet E Wall
Sarah Evans (1804) & James Evans (1825) White tablet
E Wall
Louisa Brodie (1816) E Wall
Anna Maria Sturges (1803) tablet with urn E Wall
Anne Seyner (?) tablet with urn
E Wall
White marble tablet (obscured by organ) E Wall

South Transept
This transept has three chapels to the east
(progressing along the west wall from north to south )
West Wall

Milo Sandys (1632) Slate tablet in stone frame Above: Revd John Selwyn (1823) Master of Wigston's Hospital, Leicester. White marble tablet on black slab
Right:
Thomas Rennell (1824)  Attributed to  Flaxman
Charles Ekins (1849) Bengal Cavalry. By Osmond Sir Robert Hyde (1665) Recorder of Salisbury and Chief  Justice of Common Please. Possibly by Joshua Marshal or Besnier (B Bailey)
Bishop John Thomas (1766) Marble tablet John Henry Jacob (1905) Alabaster tablet Ursula & Katherine Sadlier (1641) Black marble tablet with marble frame Above & right: Thomas Henry Hume (1834) treasurer. Marble tablet in Gothick stone surround by Hopper of London  Charles Langford (1635) painted tablet
Other Monuments in the South  Transept, West Wall
Robert Hay (17th C) Purbeck marble tablet in marble surround

General A L Layard (1823) White marble tablet on slate base
Lt-Col Roger Alvin Poore (1917) kia Passchendaele.  Marble tablet on slate base
Willoughby Vere Bertie (1812 at 1 year) and his father Willoughby Bertie (1810 lost at sea) White marble sarcophagus on black tablet by Osmond Edward Poore (1780) & Rachel (1771) Canopied table tomb by J Carline of Shrewsbury to a design of Revd Hugh Owen. Enclosed by iron railings  Bishop John Hume (1782) & Lady Mary (1805) White marble tablet with urn by T King of Bath  Mark Saurin Poore (1931) Stone tablet. Below this are two brasses to Frances Elizabeth, Lady Poore (1896) and Lt Roger Poore Royal Field Artillery (kia Flanders 1915)  
Chapel of St Lawrence  Chapel of St Michael





Above:
Lt William Fisher (1845) of the Bengal Lancers. Quatrefoil by Osmond  E Wall
Left top: Elizabeth Douce (1810) White marble sarcophagus E Wall
Left Bottom: Anna Elizabeth (Dawson) Slade (1819) Wall monument 15th century style by Osmond E Wall
Bishop John Fisher (1825) Canopied table tomb on which no effigy but cushion, crozier and Bible; by Osmond, 1828. Canopy later James Bennett (1859) White cross in Gothick surround by Osmond E Wall   Bishop Frederick Edward Ridgeway (1921) Stone with relief half length portrait; bronze by A G Wyon E Wall
 Chapel of St Margaret  Other Monuments in  Saint Margaret's Chapel
William Douglas (1819) Marble tablet by Osmond E Wall


John D
ouglas (1834) Marble tablet by Osmond  E Wall
John Henry Jacob (1862) Coffin enclosed in a arcaded tomb chest with brass on top and inscription strip around base.  Designed by G E Street 

The Nave - North Aisle
(progressing from east to west)
First Bay
Henry Hatcher (1846) Local historian. Stone tablet with Gothick architectural surround by Osmond James Wickens (1827) & Ann (1850) White marble scroll surmounted with pediment and urn on black base Dr John Stephens (1780) & Mary (1779) White marble tablet with pediment and black marble details Sir John Cheyney (1509) Alabaster effigy, formerly on now destroyed canopied tomb chest (drawing extant); now on tomb chest made of fragments of other monuments. He was a supporter of Henry Tudor; fought at Bosworth and rescued Henry's standard when the bearer was killed.
Second Bay Third Bay
Walter Lord Hungerford (1449) & his second wife Catherine Peverell. Table tomb constructed on the site of the chantry chapel in 1779 with fragments from that chapel and  elsewhere; the top consists of two cut to size Purbeck floor slabs with brass indents Horatio Third Earl Nelson (1913) White marble tablet in Purbeck frame
 Lt General Sir George Montague Harper (1922) White marble tablet in gray marble frame and bronze portrait in relief.
Coloured marble pedimented tablet with flanking angels in memory of those killed in a railway accident in Salisbury in 1906
Fourth Bay   Fifth Bay


John Montacute, Earl of Salisbury (1389) Sandstone tomb chest with effigy in arnour. Remains of painting and gilding. Tomb chest has shields bearing arms
Other Monuments in Fourth Bay
Copper, with brass insets, relief medallion, memorial to dead of South African War 1900-3
 

E W Tennant (1916) the soldier poet. White marble portrait relief signed AGW (Arthur George Walker RA). Kia on the Somme aged 19
 
Other Monuments in Fifth Bay
Purbeck marble tomb chest 15th century. Quatrefoil paneled sides, each with blank shield. Holes and an indent for lost brasses
Sixth Bay Seventh Bay Eighth Bay
There are no monuments listed in this bay



Ninth Bay
There are no monuments in this bay
Purbeck marble table tomb, late medieval, with flat sides with plain shields in roundels formerly with brasses.

Tenth Bay
13th century Purbeck marble coffin lid with traces of cross in relief


Above: The 'Boy Bishop' or, possibly, Bishop William de la Corner. Effigy only 1.1 m in length and of Bath Stone. 13th or early 14th century.


William Longespee (1250) Possibly,  Son of Earl of Salisbury of the same name, whose effigy is in the south aisle. Purbeck marble effigy

William Coles (1789), Jane Coles (1810), Jane Medlycott (1824)
their daughter and her daughter, Jane Paget Ainslie (1839) White marble tablet, somewhat obscured by clock mechanism

The Nave - South Aisle
First Bay

Above: William Longespee, Earl of Salisbury (1226) Illegitimate son of Henry II. Tournai marble effigy with straight legs lying on a painted oak chest. Arms carved in relief on shield.
Next right: Bishop Gilbert Burnet (1715) erected in 1960 by an American descendant
Far right: Margaret Ashley (1679) Attributed to Jasper Latham
Second Bay




Left: Bishop Walter de la Wyle (1270) Purbeck marble effigy on tomb chest of 1789 consists of slabs of Purbeck marble from various tombs and canopies, including that of Robert Lord Hungerford.
Above:
Sir Henry Hyde (1650) marble, attributed to Joshua Marshall


Elihonor Sadler (1622) Painted stone. The arms are Sadler impaling St Barbe and Powell also impaling St Barbe. In wall niche.
Third Bay
Other Monuments in Third Bay
St Osmond's Shrine Plain Purbeck marble tomb with three round apertures on each of the long sides
Elizabeth Hyde (1667) daughter of Bishop Hyde. Marble, attrib. Thomas Burman Joseph Gribble (1767) Black slate tablet with marble surround Archdeacon Henry Stebbing (1763) Marble tablet  
Fourth Bay Fifth Bay

Above & Left:  Robert Lord Hungerford (1459) Alabaster effigy in Milanese armour; traces of pigment. The tomb chest is not original but composed of 15th century reused Purbeck marble slabs, possibly with paneling perhaps from original tomb chest. Near Right Top: Mrs Mary (Mervin) Cooke (1642) Slate tablet in stone Right Bottom: Canon John Priaulx (1674) Slate tablet in stone surround

Above Top Left: Margaret Tounson (1634) Slate tablet in painted stone frame with broken pediment enclosing oval cartouche of arms 
Above Top Right:
Edward Davenant (1639) White tablet
Above Bottom:
Bishop Beauchamp (1481) Stone tomb chest with quatrefoil panels enclosing blank shields.
Sixth Bay Seventh Bay 
 

Above:
Richard Brassey Hole MD (1849) Died of cholera aged 30. Modern stone tablet
And below this: Bertram Charles Parsons (1968) Clerk of works for 22 years. Stone tablet
 

Above: Revd William Brown (1784)
Right: Alexander Ballantyne MD   White sarcophagus on gray marble slab erected 1783.
Far Right; Henry Fawcett (1833)
Sarah Maria Fawcett (1923) Marble
     

 Above: William Geoffrey Canon and Chancellor
Other Monuments in Sixth Bay 
 Henry Hele MD White marble tablet 
 Eighth Bay  Ninth Bay
 

Robert Graves Blackburne Farrer (1928) Malay Civil Service.
White marble tablet
 



Above Top: Bishop Roger (1139) (?) Late 12th century coffin lid with effigy of a bishop
Bottom Osmund (sometimes said to be Bishop Jocelin de Bohun, 1184) 12th century Purbeck marble coffin line with effigy of a bishop. Verses inscribed on chasuble and edge of lid.
These two monuments were moved to the new cathedral from Old Sarum
 
 There are no monuments in this bay




Tenth Bay 

Plain Purbeck marble coffin lid, 13th Century
 
Other Monuments in Eighth Bay
William Fawcett (1887) & Mary (1889) White marble tablet
Henry Richard William Farrer (1933) stone tablet
 
 
Nave - West Wall 
   

Above and Left: D'Aubigny Turbeville (1696) & Ann (1694) Slate or Purbeck tablet with stone base
Right & Far Right: Thomas, Baron Wyndham of Finglass (1745) gray and white marble of seated lady holding staff and harp. Signed Mich Rysbrack
   
 The Cloisters
Vestibule
(from the south transept to the east walk) 
 Garth South Walk  North Walk 
           
Above: Jane Louisa Chapeau (1867) by Osmond
Also but not shown:
William Osmond (1875) This is identical to the above.
Right: Louisa Marie Dennison (1841)
 
 Wadham Wyndham (1845) and to the right of this Israel Vanderplank (1707)

 A
lso but not shown: John Edward Young (1832), William Arne(1824), John Etkins (1898), Arthur Thomas Corfe Anael (1866),
Christopher Clarke (1835), Elizabeth Eyre (1850), Daniel Eyre,
Henry Finley (1870)
 
From Left to Right Above:  John Greenly (1832), Rev C H Hodgson (1856), William Osmond mason. Buried in Salisbury Cemetery.
Other Monuments in North Walk 
 David Charles Read (1886)
Sarah Louisa Middleton (1872)
Amy Withams (185_)
Edward Steward (1930)
East Walk
 Left: Top: William Posthumous Chapeau (1833), his widow Louisa Haydon Chichele (1848) and their son, Francis William John Chicheley (1831) and their daughter Louisa Elizabeth (1843)
Bottom: Henry Stevens (1867) of the Middle Temple, his wife Frances Margaret (daughter of the above) & Henry Chichele Chapeau (1877) , brother of the latter.
Above Far Left: William Wadham Young (1862)
Above Centre Left: Mary Gilbert (1854)
Above Centre Right: John Luxford (1813)
The brass below records that the chapter house window dedicated to James Wicking 'of this close) and Ann. Dated 1861
Above Far Right: Caroline Luxford (1800) The brass below is in memory of James Hussey (1879) 'of this close'. Buried at Menton

Above: Frederick Fawson Lee MB FRCS (1899) 'of this close; buried in cloister green
Near Right: Henrietta Sophia Jacob
Centre Right: George Lewis Benson (1862)
Far Right: Harry Archer Mount (1790) and below this:
William Young (1881)
Also but not illustrated

Richard Guy (184_)
Tudor style tablet by Osmond
Anne & Henrietta Wenyere
The following I have not located
James _lay (1837) and below this Augusta Walker (1900) buried in the cloister green Catherine Frances Louisa Buckeridge (1845) Ella Bingham JanE Wilson Sarah Anne Benson (1864)
 
With grateful thanks to Amanda Miller of Amanda's Arcade for taking and providing all this photographs and much of the information on this page.