Salisbury Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in southern England, and it is notable for being built in a short time and in a single style, Early English Gothic. The cathedral was moved from the older hilltop site at Old Sarum to the plain, and its foundation stone was laid in the early thirteenth century under Bishop Richard Poore. The main body was finished within about forty years. Its tower and spire, added in the fourteenth century, rises to about 123 metres, making it the tallest church spire in Britain. The cathedral houses one of the four surviving original copies of the Magna Carta of 1215.
Before and after
- from December 1219 to February 1220Otrar Catastrophe
- 1220Construction of Notre-Dame d'Amiens
- 1220Construction of Notre-Dame de Chartres
- 1220Construction of York Minster
- 1220Construction of Salisbury Cathedral
- 1220Siege of Samarkand
- February 1220Siege of Bukhara (1220)
- 13 May 1220Birth of Alexander Nevsky
- from October 1220 to April 1221Siege of Gurganj
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