Wiltshire and Swindon Sites and Monument Record Information

SMR Number

SU13SW489

Site Name

City of New Sarum

Grid Ref

SU145301

Parish

New Sarum (Salisbury)

Photographs

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District

Salisbury

Site Type

City

Period

Late Medieval

Scheduled Monument

AM736

X Y Grid Ref

414500, 130100

Altitude

45.72 metres

Geology

Third River Terrace; Alluvium

Description

Planned Medieval town of New Sarum founded in AD1220.

Details

A planned cathedral city begun cAD1220 acknowledging pre-existing roads, with a grid street pattern, large rectangular market area, cathedral close and a system of watercourses. City bounded in S and W by the river Avon and N and E by city ramparts an extant section of which is Scheduled as AM736.

Sources

Victoria County History Vol 6, p69-180

Salisbury (in Lobel, Mary D "Historic Towns" 1969 Rogers, Kenneth H

City of Salisbury 1980 RCHME

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