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First Edition, December, 1896.

Second Edition, revised, and with Eighteen additional Illustrations,1898.

SALISBURY CATHEDRAL FROM THE BISHOP'S PALACE.
From a Photograph by Catherine Weed Ward.ToList

THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF

SALISBURY

A DESCRIPTION OF ITS FABRIC
AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE
SEE OF SARUM

BY GLEESON WHITE

WITH FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON GEORGE BELL & SONS 1898

CHISWICK PRESS:—CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.
TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.

GENERAL PREFACE.

This series of monographs has been planned to supply visitors to thegreat English Cathedrals with accurate and well illustrated guidebooks at a popular price. The aim of each writer has been to produce awork compiled with sufficient knowledge and scholarship to be of valueto the student of archæology and history, and yet not too technical inlanguage for the use of an ordinary visitor or tourist.

To specify all the authorities which have been made use of in eachcase would be difficult and tedious in this place. But amongst thegeneral sources of information which have been almost invariably founduseful are:—firstly, the great county histories, the value of which,especially in questions of genealogy and local records, is generallyrecognized; secondly, the numerous papers by experts which appear fromtime to time in the transactions of the antiquarian and archæologicalsocieties; thirdly, the important documents made accessible in theseries issued by the Master of the Rolls; fourthly, the well-knownworks of Britton and Willis on the English Cathedrals; and, lastly,the very excellent series of Handbooks to the Cathedrals, originatedby the late Mr. John Murray, to which the reader may in most cases bereferred for fuller detail, especially in reference to the historiesof the respective sees.

Gleeson White.
Edward F. Strange.
Editors of the Series....