The Cathedral Crypt

 

WELCOME TO THE SUBTERRANEAN WORLD OF THE CATHEDRAL

 

ROOM 1

TREASURES FROM THE DIOCESAN ARCHIVES

Display currently under preparation with liberal applications of strong disinfectant, aromatic incense and gel hand sanitiser

 

 

ROOM 2

Read the late Enid Biltong's last work
bequeathed to the Cathedral Chapter in her Will.

HERE

 

 

ROOM 3

  PHARISAIOS PUBLICITY EPHEMERA

Scan through items such as posters, book wrappers and invitations in this gallery of throw-away material rescued from the dustbins of Salisbury & Wells and Pharisaios team members.

ENTER THE BINS HERE

 

 

ROOM 4

A remembrance of what it was like before the ordination of women.

The Four Orders

 

 

ROOM 5

LITERARY DISCOVERY

Left in the Refectory, an unpublished chapter from the classic "sex and surplice" novel

THE THORNY BIRDS

 

 

ROOM 6

Two tales to cool you down on sticky nights

"Splashes from the shower"

"No shower at the Inn"

 

 

ROOM 7

BURIALS AT SEA

DETAILS

 

 

ROOM 8

PHARISAIOS INVESTIGATIONS

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF DEACON MARGARET WIBBLY

 

 

ROOM 9

HOUSE BLESSINGS

FIND OUT MORE!

 

 

ROOM 10

Archive photographs

 

 

ROOM 11

The Armageddon Alive project

 

 

ROOM 12

THE DIARY OF AN ORDINAND

 

 

ROOM 13

Minutes of the 2006 Cathedral AGM

Not for the faint-hearted

 

ROOM 14

Mail your requests for healing to the Chair of the Healing Committee

I have a nasty complaint

 

ROOM 15

Meditate on the surviving extract (never before published) of a pilgrim's diary in

"Languishing in Languedoc"

 

 

ROOM 16

After the debacle of the 2022 Lambeth Conference, wallow in nostalgia for a simpler time with the Diary of the 2008 Conference.

LAMBETH 2008 DIARY

 

 

ROOM 17

Display of PHARISAIOS magazine front covers

VIEW

 

 

 

We offer prayers for all visitors to the Crypt at midday every weekday in the Mandylion chapel.

EXIT TO THE CATHEDRAL