Saturday, October 29, 2011

June 2011: Salisbury Cathedral #1 To the Cathedral

We popped over to Salisbury, it was a lovely warm day and decided to have a group photo run. Here are some of the photographs of the trip from the car park to the outskirts of the Cathedral.

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After parking, started walking to the cathedral, check out the lovely flowers.

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A lovely river flowing through the city. Actually, there are 5 rivers which go through the city.

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Warm sunlight playing through the trees on the clear waters.

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Long streamers of water weeds

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You can see the beams of sunlight hitting the surface and going through the water to highlight the grassy bottom.

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And some trash as well.

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A lovely little bridge on the other side.

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With ducks

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And trees bent over like they are drinking from the water.

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Dammit, where were we going?

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Long winding streets.

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Even these houses were very well done.

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Erm, not sure what this is, in the middle of the pavement. Hitching posts?

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Lovely stone windows of this church office.

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Hmmmm, feet in the window.

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A smorgasbord of architectural shapes and sizes and types and forms.

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We have a Wizard sign!

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And we have an Indian Shop, didnt have time to pop in but looked quite interesting.

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One of the old gates into the cathedral.

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With the royal coat of arms

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The houses on the left are a rather distressing counterpart to the lovely stonework of the gate.

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It has a lovely wooden gate, with a door built into it. With a security camera.

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The arch is getting a bit manky. A spot of restoration perhaps?

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Moving into the cathedral area proper

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There’s the spire in the background.

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A tiny teeny weeny passage with a sunlight hedge in the back, I felt like Alice in Wonderland observing the wonderful garden through the tiny door.

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Some of the ancient adornments.

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Another one.

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There is a square which opens up from the road into the cathedral area. Beautiful place, lovely grassy lawn.

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Moving on.

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The spire stands tall.

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We are the entrance to the cathedral grounds. Next would be the view of the cathedral from outside.

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