Editing Salisbury (section)

==Churches==
Besides the cathedral church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Salisbury has several churches of various denominations. Three of them – St Martin, St Thomas and St Lawrence (Stratford-sub-Castle) – are [[Grade I listed]].

===Medieval===
[[File:Salisbury - St Martin's Church - geograph.org.uk - 1184177.jpg|thumb|St Martin's Church (Church of England)]]
[[Church of St Martin, Salisbury|St Martin's Church]] predates the establishment of the cathedral at New Sarum. The church is on the south side of Milford Hill, beyond the eastern edge of the medieval town. The chancel is from c.1230, the tower (with spire) is 14th-century and the nave and aisles are from the late 15th century, but there is evidence of an earlier church and of Saxon burials.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1259041|desc=Church of St Martin|access-date=10 April 2023|fewer-links=yes}}</ref> The parish has a long-standing [[Anglo-Catholic]] tradition.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sarum St Martin |url=https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/19776/find-us/ |access-date=10 April 2023 |website=A Church Near You |publisher=The Archbishops' Council}}</ref>

[[Church of St Edmund, Salisbury|St Edmund's]] was founded as a [[collegiate church]] in 1269, in the north of the city. It was originally a larger building which was damaged when the central tower fell in 1653; the nave was demolished and a new tower was built at the west end. A chancel was added in 1766 and then rebuilt in 1865–1867 by [[Sir George Gilbert Scott]]. The church was declared [[Redundant church|redundant]] in 1974 and reopened as Salisbury Arts Centre in 1975. A two-storey addition was built on the north side in 2003–2005.<ref name="Orbach">{{Cite book |last1=Orbach |first1=Julian |title=Wiltshire |last2=Pevsner |first2=Nikolaus |last3=Cherry |first3=Bridget |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |year=2021 |isbn=978-0-300-25120-3 |series=The Buildings Of England |location=New Haven, US and London |pages=590–597 |oclc=1201298091 |author-link2=Nikolaus Pevsner |author-link3=Bridget Cherry}}</ref>

[[File:Medieval painting, St Thomas's Church, Salisbury UK.jpg|thumb|upright|The 15th-century doom painting in St Thomas' church]]
[[St Thomas's Church, Salisbury|St Thomas']] church has a central position, just west of the market square. It was founded in the early 13th century and rebuilt in the 15th at the expense of the city's prosperous merchants.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1273123|desc=Church of St Thomas|access-date=13 April 2023|fewer-links=yes}}</ref> Above the chancel arch is a large 15th-century [[Doom paintings|doom painting]], "one of the best surviving" according to Orbach.<ref name="Orbach" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Dowson |first=Thomas |title=The Doom Painting of St Thomas' Church, Salisbury |url=https://archaeology-travel.com/england/doom-painting-st-thomas-church-salisbury/ |access-date=10 April 2023 |website=archaeology-travel.com|date=24 February 2022 }}</ref>

The churches of three rural parishes are in areas now absorbed into Salisbury. St George's at [[West Harnham]] was begun in the 12th century and altered in the early 14th century.<ref>{{Cite web |title=St George, West Harnham, Wiltshire |url=https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=2609 |access-date=10 April 2023 |website=The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland |publisher=King's College London}}</ref><ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1242798|desc=Church of St George|access-date=10 April 2023|fewer-links=yes}}</ref> [[St Lawrence, Stratford-sub-Castle]], was built in the 13th century for the settlement near [[Old Sarum]], at first as a [[chapelry]] of St Martin's.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1272953|desc=Church of St Lawrence|access-date=13 April 2023|fewer-links=yes}}</ref><ref name="vch-churches">{{Cite book |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol6/pp144-155 |title=A History of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 6 |date=1962 |publisher=University of London |editor-last=Crittall |editor-first=Elizabeth |series=[[Victoria County History]] |pages=144–155 |chapter=Salisbury: Churches |access-date=13 April 2023 |via=British History Online}}</ref> The small church of St Andrew at [[Bemerton]] was built in the 14th century on the site of an earlier church.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1023696|desc=Church of St Andrew|access-date=13 April 2023|fewer-links=yes}}</ref> It is associated with the poet and priest [[George Herbert]], rector from 1630 until his death in 1633.

===19th century===
[[St Osmund's Church, Salisbury|St Osmund's]] (Catholic) is on Exeter Street in the city centre, a short distance east of the cathedral. It was designed by [[Augustus Pugin]], who also designed some of the stained glass, and was consecrated in 1848.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1241985|desc=Church of St Osmund|access-date=10 April 2023|fewer-links=yes}}</ref>

[[St Paul's Church, Salisbury|St Paul's church]], serving part of the northern suburbs, was built near the start of the Devizes road in 1853. It was a replacement for St Clement's at Fisherton village, which had stood near the [[River Nadder|Nadder]] since at least the 14th century. The style of worship has been [[Evangelicalism|evangelical]] since the 1860s.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol6/pp180-194#h3-0005 |title=A History of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 6 |date=1962 |publisher=University of London |editor-last=Crittall |editor-first=Elizabeth |series=[[Victoria County History]] |pages=180–194 |chapter=Fisherton Anger |access-date=10 April 2023 |via=British History Online}}</ref>

The small All Saints' church was built at East Harnham in 1854, to designs of [[Thomas Henry Wyatt|T.H. Wyatt]].<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1242276|desc=Church of All Saints|access-date=10 April 2023|fewer-links=yes}}</ref>

In 1861, St John's church was built at Bemerton to supplement St Andrew's. The building was declared redundant in 2010 and reopened in 2016 as a community centre and events venue.<ref>{{Cite web |date=19 July 2015 |title=Village church saved after meeting fundraising target |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-33573798 |access-date=10 April 2023 |website=BBC News: Wiltshire}}</ref>

[[St Mark's Church, Salisbury|St Mark's]] was dedicated in 1894 to serve the expanding northern suburbs. The church is described as "ambitious" by [[Historic England]] and "expensively detailed" by Orbach.<ref name="Orbach" /> Construction was in stages, finishing in 1915, and the upper part of the tower was never built.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1259035|desc=Church of St Mark|access-date=10 April 2023|fewer-links=yes}}</ref>

19th-century buildings for other denominations include, in the city centre, the Methodist Church (1811, enlarged later);<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1258943|desc=Methodist Community Church|access-date=11 April 2023|fewer-links=yes}}</ref> the United Reformed Church (originally Congregational, 1879);<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1355795|desc=Congregational Church|access-date=11 April 2023|fewer-links=yes}}</ref> Elim Pentecostal Church (originally Primitive Methodist, 1896, now a nightclub);<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1243577|desc=Elim Pentecostal Church|access-date=11 April 2023|fewer-links=yes}}</ref> and on Wilton Road, Emmanuel Church (1860).<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1272928|desc=Emmanuel Free Evangelical Church|access-date=11 April 2023|fewer-links=yes}}</ref>

===20th century===
[[File:Church of St. Gregory and the English Martyrs, (1) Salisbury, UK.jpg|thumb|Church of St. Gregory and the English Martyrs, Salisbury (Roman Catholic)]]
The Roman Catholic St. Gregory's Church was built in the city's western suburbs in 1938.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Salisbury - St Gregory and the English Martyrs |url=https://taking-stock.org.uk/building/salisbury-st-gregory-and-the-english-martyrs/ |access-date=2024-02-05 |website=Taking Stock |language=en-GB}}</ref>

As the city's suburbs extended further north, [[St Francis's Church, Salisbury|St Francis's church]] was consecrated in 1940 to serve an area which had been part of Stratford-sub-Castle parish. Worship is [[Evangelicalism|evangelical]] in style, and services are designed to appeal to families and young people.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About: Story |url=https://www.st-francischurch.org.uk/about/story/ |access-date=21 March 2023 |website=St Francis Church|date=20 November 2013 }}</ref>