3:57
Engraving of the Cathedral
21:52
Grave of Sir John Cheney
25:22
Foundations of the Bell Tower
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This Is Really Incredible and Historic Discovery in the Mid 1440s a Huge Chalk Raft Was Laid Out across this Whole Area It Would Seem this Was the First Stage of an Ambitious and Expensive Plan by Bishop Beecham To Build an Entire New East End Probably Too Honest and Osmond Salisbury Patron Saint It's a Grand Plan That Would Have Transformed this Famous Aspect of the Cathedral although We Can Only Guess How but for some Reason It Never Happened and Beecham Instead Used the Space for His Own Private Chapel Even Then He Didn't Skimp and Built a Spectacular Memorial to Himself with His Tomb Taking Center Stage in a Highly Gothic and Intricately Designed Interior
41:43
If You Were a Bell Ringer in the Middle Ages You Would Have Come In through a Big Door Here You Would Have Walked across this Floor Here It Would Have Been Higher than It Is Now but All this Stones Have Been Robbed Out until You Came to another Wooden Doorway Here Which You Open Probably in Like that You Come into a Lobby You Can See the Ghost of It on the Ground Still although All the Stones of the Wall Have Been Robbed Out You Then Come to a Stair Once Again that's Been Robbed Away You Walk along It like that and Then You Get to the First Step of the Spiral Staircase To Take You Up to the Bells You Can See How the Masons Have Drawn some Lines Here To Line Up the Staircase
41:48
Here You Would Have Walked across this Floor Here It Would Have Been Higher than It Is Now but All this Stones Have Been Robbed Out until You Came to another Wooden Doorway Here Which You Open Probably in Like that You Come into a Lobby You Can See the Ghost of It on the Ground Still although All the Stones of the Wall Have Been Robbed Out You Then Come to a Stair Once Again that's Been Robbed Away You Walk along It like that and Then You Get to the First Step of the Spiral Staircase To Take You Up to the Bells You Can See How the Masons Have Drawn some Lines Here To Line Up the Staircase and off You Go Round and Round Right Up As Far as You Want To so that Is Simple but this Half of the Trench Has Been a Complete Pig Hasn't It Make Yeah It Has but I Think We Understand It Now Come On Then Tell Me the Story You Saw this Wall
42:02
You Can See the Ghost of It on the Ground Still although All the Stones of the Wall Have Been Robbed Out You Then Come to a Stair Once Again that's Been Robbed Away You Walk along It like that and Then You Get to the First Step of the Spiral Staircase To Take You Up to the Bells You Can See How the Masons Have Drawn some Lines Here To Line Up the Staircase and off You Go Round and Round Right Up As Far as You Want To so that Is Simple but this Half of the Trench Has Been a Complete Pig Hasn't It Make Yeah It Has but I Think We Understand It Now Come On Then Tell Me the Story You Saw this Wall Earlier that's underneath the Tower
42:50
So It Might Be Something To Do with the Settlements Around There but Much More Likely to Is that this Is Something To Do with a Huge Cathedral Building Project Doesn't It Absolutely and I Think It's Very Clear that's What It Is Now because It's Quite a Narrow Wall It's a Rough Building and It's Very Thin so It Probably Had a Wooden Sill Beam this Is Almost Certainly Timber Frame Exam We Probably Ought To Be Thinking of a Timber Shed You Know cuz There's Ab Which Is the Outside and Which Is the Inside Well We Think We Might Don't We Yes because What We Seem To Have Here Are Large Numbers of Fragments of Purbeck Marble
44:19
The Big Building Project Here They'Re Dismantling the Norman Cathedral Up at Old Sarum and They'Re Bringing Material Down from It and Reusing It in this Building Project Yeah and that Has Been There since the 10th Century Aha so that Could Explain Why We'Ve Got an Old Markings on You They Could Be Early Norman They Could Even Be before 1066 Probably Norman-Norman I Said Ok but the Real Reason That We Put this Son Dajin in the First Place before We Were Distracted by this Earlier Wall Was because We Wanted To Find Out
45:43
It Was Sturdy Enough To Support the Bell Tower and Cathedral Even though the Depth and Size of Their Foundations Were a Mere Fraction of the Colossal Structures They Held Up but I Just Can't Help Feeling Slightly Hacked Off with the 1780s Redevelopment That Robbed Salisbury of this Fantastic Example of Their Craft It Would Look Breathtaking Today but Even Now at the End of a Monumental Dig There's Still One Final Question To Answer Well We Know Now Don't We Where Bishop Beecham Was Buried He Was Buried Here and Then Was Disinterred and Laid To Rest in the Cathedral