It is another very famous cathedral - interestingly not really know as 'Salisbury Cathedral' - when you try to find it on the map you discover that it is called the 'Cathedral of St Mary.'
Fact #1 - The spire is 404 feet tall, the tallest in the UK. As you can see, it is huge.
Fact #2 - They have what they describe as "probably the oldest working clock in the world"
Fact #3 - And the most interesting. They have one of the four surviving copies of the original 1215 Magna Carta (I emphasize original, because it was revised a few times), because one of the guys entrusted with distributing the copies after it was signed happened to work for the cathedral. They list the locations of the others, two are in the British National library, one in Lincoln castle. This is the most perfect copy of the original in existence. (no pictures allowed)
Fact #1 - The spire is 404 feet tall, the tallest in the UK. As you can see, it is huge.
Fact #2 - They have what they describe as "probably the oldest working clock in the world"
Fact #3 - And the most interesting. They have one of the four surviving copies of the original 1215 Magna Carta (I emphasize original, because it was revised a few times), because one of the guys entrusted with distributing the copies after it was signed happened to work for the cathedral. They list the locations of the others, two are in the British National library, one in Lincoln castle. This is the most perfect copy of the original in existence. (no pictures allowed)
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