Choirman Sam Smith's Post

Today we eagerly received a tour of Salisbury Cathedral, including the great tower. Built quickly in a remarkably cohesive Early English Gothic Style, Salisbury has many noteworthy features, including the tallest spire, most expansive close, largest cloisters and the oldest complete quire stalls of any church in Britain. It has the world's oldest surviving clock and the best preserved of four extant copies of the Magna Carta. And it is Britain's first cathedral to add a girls' choir to its choir school. Finally, the tower is home to a brood of peregrine falcons, whose spire-circling orbits are on view in the Salisbury "falcon cam." We saw and heard one today from our perch on the spire. We closed the day with a sung Eucharist featuring Howells' Collegium Regale Service.