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Salisbury is one of the finest medieval cathedrals in Britain.
It is the mother church of the Salisbury Diocese, an area
which covers most of the counties of Wiltshire and Dorset.
It was on a rough field called St. Mary's Mead in 1220 AD
that Bishop Richard Poore and his brilliant architect Elias
de Derham decided to build a new state-of-the-art Gothic style
Cathedral to replace the old Norman Church at Old Sarum. Because
they take so many generations to build, almost all other English
Cathedrals are a mixture of different architectural styles.
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