• Old Sarum Cathedral was a Catholic and Norman cathedral at old Salisbury, now known as Old Sarum, between 1092 and 1220.
  • Old Sarum, the Salisbury Cathedral that was: When the bishop conducted services at the cathedral at Old Sarum during a storm, gales raged high and howled...
  • The cathedral at Old Sarum was probably started under Bishop Hermann (d. 1078), when the see was moved from Sherborne (in 1075)...
  • This guidebook includes a tour of the Iron Age ramparts, cathedral and castle and tells the story of Old Sarum from its beginnings to its 20th-century rediscovery.
  • The cathedral seen from the Posten Gate of Old Sarum Castle. View of the cathedral ruins from the north walls of the castle.
  • Bishop Osmund is considered the builder of the first Cathedral at Old Sarum. During the Middle Ages, Bishop Roger of Sarum took over the castle in 1130.
  • This latter event marks the ritual abandonment of Old Sarum Cathedral, after which the demolition of the old cathedral began.
  • The first cathedral at Old Sarum was damaged by a storm five days after its completion. It was magnificently extended by Bishop Roger, only to be demolished 150...
  • Osmund had the first Cathedral at Old Sarum built, and it was completed in 1092. Unfortunately the cathedral suffered extensive damage in a storm.
  • In 1075 a church council authorised the relocation of the bishopric (diocese) of Shurborne at Old Sarum. Old Sarum Cathedral was built by Bishop Osmund...