Tickets on sale from 10am on Monday 9 September Salisbury Cathedral will premiere a brand-new light and sound spectacular from Luxmuralis when Sarum Lights returns this November. Sarum Lights: Time, supported by CCLA Investment,  will run from Tuesday 5 to Saturday 9 November 2024. In previous years, Sarum Lights has attracted more than 12,000 people […] The post Sarum Lights returns to Salisbury Cathedral with new spectacular appeared first on Salisbury Cathedral ..read more

We are pleased to share an update on our plans for Leaden Hall in the Cathedral Close. In January 2024 the Cathedral submitted a planning application to Wiltshire Council to restore and repair Leaden Hall to realise our long-held ambition to locate our office staff under one roof and to create a lasting base for […] The post Leaden Hall: An Update appeared first on Salisbury Cathedral ..read more

A unique music collaboration between La Folia, Exeter House School, Able Hands Together, Salisbury Cathedral and Salisbury Cathedral School Following six months of creative workshops and planning, Evening Songs will return to Salisbury Cathedral on Tuesday 2 July at 5.30pm for a very special Evensong service. This ground-breaking project sees special needs students from Exeter House School in Salisbury and choristers from Salisbury Cathedral come together to devise new words and melodies for the traditional Evensong service. While the format remains largely the same, much of the musi ..read more

Salisbury Cathedral is delighted to announce that King Charles III has agreed to remain Patron of the Salisbury Cathedral Trust. The recent announcement from Buckingham Palace coincided with the first anniversary of His Majesty’s Coronation. The Salisbury Cathedral Trust was established in 1984, initially as the Spire Appeal Trust, under the patronage of the then Prince of Wales, to manage fundraising to support necessary repairs to the Spire, Tower and West Front. Since then, the Trust has continued to provide funds for the ongoing repair and maintenance of the Cathedral building. Work on the ..read more

During the Evensong service on Thursday 23 May, three non-residentiary canons and a lay canon will be installed into the College of Canons at Salisbury Cathedral, by invitation of the Right Reverend Stephen Lake, Bishop of Salisbury. The College of Canons is part of the Cathedral’s extended family and meets twice a year to provide feedback on policy decisions made by Chapter, the Cathedral’s governing body, and on Cathedral activities. The Revd Keith Brindle, vicar of St James in Devizes, will take his place in the Teynton Regis stall in the Cathedral Quire. Keith has been the incumbent at St ..read more

The chicks, which are around three weeks old, were weighed, measured and fitted with a small metal ring by Nigel Jones from the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), assisted by Tommy Saunders. They have a ring on their right leg (used for tracking and record-keeping) and a larger orange plastic Darvic ring bearing a unique ID on their left leg. Ringing is an important part of the Cathedral’s peregrine project, because it provides the BTO and Cathedral with information as to the ‘secret’ lives of these amazing birds, telling us where they go and what they do. The four chicks are three males and ..read more

In February 2024, Salisbury Cathedral’s stained glass team led by Sam Kelly, head glazier and conservator, began the painstaking process of removing a 19th century window designed by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones and designer and craftsman William Morris, 145 years after it was first installed. Featuring two huge figurative designs – Angeli Ministrantes (Angels Ministering) and Angeli Laudantes (Angels Praising) by Burne-Jones – that sit within Morris’s elaborate acanthus leaf design that reflects the medieval grisaille or grey painted windows elsewhere in the Cathedra ..read more

On Sunday 14 January 2024, after more than 10 years of planning, selecting and commissioning designs, Salisbury Cathedral formally unveiled two new altars, which were consecrated by the Right Revd Stephen Lake, Bishop of Salisbury, during the 10.30 Eucharist. This is the first time in 500 years that a new altar has been consecrated in the Cathedral Nave and at least 20 years since the decision was taken to re-order the Cathedral. The altars are a unique collaboration between sculptor William Pye and furniture maker Luke Hughes, a former Cathedral school pupil, and will be placed in the Spire C ..read more

During Evensong at Salisbury Cathedral yesterday (Sunday 10 December) two ‘rival’ bishops came face to face in a ceremony that harks back to the Middle Ages. This special service takes place in early December every year. In keeping with tradition, as the service unfolded The Right Rev Stephen Lake, Bishop of Salisbury, ‘handed over’ his diocese and throne to 13-year-old Harry Mills, symbolically relinquished his staff, mitre and cope. Then ‘Bishop’ Harry assumed the symbols of the bishop’s office (the Chorister Bishop’s robe, mitre, staff and ring) and took his place in the Cathedra (or bishop ..read more

On 15 November 2023, Salisbury Cathedral Choir is releasing its first Christmas album for over a decade on its own recently founded Salisbury Cathedral record label. The album entitled Salisbury Christmas is a collection of Christmas carols old and new, sung by Salisbury Cathedral Choir, with John Challenger (organ), directed by David Halls. The album features the full Cathedral Choir, girl and boy choristers and adult singers, accompanied on the famous ‘Father’ Willis organ. Many works on the album have a particular Salisbury link. Several carols are arrangements by the late Sir David Willcoc ..read more