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Salisbury Cathedral Cloisters - Salisbury (21) B&W AILW

"I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral." - Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Salisbury Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Salisbury, considered one of the leading examples of Early English architecture.

 

The main body was completed in only 38 years, from 1220 to 1258. The cathedral has the tallest church spire in the United Kingdom (123 m or 404 ft).

 

The cathedral has the largest cloisters of any British Cathedral.

 

The cloisters were started as a purely decorative feature only five years after the cathedral building was completed, with shapes, patterns, and materials that copy those of the cathedral interior.

 

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Uploaded on January 16, 2022
Taken on April 14, 2014