Talk:Salisbury Cathedral
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[edit] Check the facts about Monastic Origins
Just returned from a tour of Salisbury Cathedral, where the guide said that although they had cloisters, there were never any monks living there.
- I yanked the reference. Salisbury was not monastic. Good catch and thank you. Robshill 01:39, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Sorry, I messed up the original picture
I accidentally overwrote the original picture. I reverted back to it, but now it doesn't show up somehow.
- If you mean Image:Salisbury Cathedral.jpg on the Commons, don't worry, it looks like you did the right thing. You are most likely being caught out by one of the image caches. One of the headaches of working with images as that either your browser or the wiki servers can cache an earlier version of an image, so you don't always see your revisions immediately. If you are using Firefox or InternetExplorer, it can sometimes help to press <CTRL>-F5 to force a reload. To force the Wiki serves to purge the cache for an image, you have to write a tricky little URL like this purge link, but that is a bit of a black art. Waiting a little while will also do the trick, but that is very convenient.
- By the way, the Image:Salisbury Cathedral Detail Arches.jpg looks rather good too. Nice one. -- Solipsist 16:51, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] is this true?
is it true (as claimed by ripley's) that salisbury cathedral has:
12 doors for each month of the year; 365 windows for each day of the year; 24 pillars for each hour in a day; 60 sculptures for each minute in an hour; and 60 crosses for each second in a minute?
can someone verify this?
if it's true, then this is certainly an awesome building.
- No it isn't... the floor plan shows quite clearly there are 50 small and four large pillars, and abotu half a dozen doors.
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- Not true, but the traditional rhyme
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- As many days as in one year there be,
- So many windows in this church you see,
- As many marble pillars here appear
- As there are hours throughout the fleeting year,
- As many gates as moons one here does view,
- Strange tale to tell, yet not more strange than true.
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- is found here William Avery 20:25, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
