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Thread #135905   Message #3102456
Posted By: theleveller
25-Feb-11 - 04:53 AM
Thread Name: Salisbury Cathedral
Subject: RE: Salisbury Cathedral
If you're interested in music, a visit to Beverley Minster is a must (apart from being one of the most beautiful ecclesiastical buildings in Europe) - the collection of carvings of medieval instruments is amazing. Also look out for the foliate heads and my favourite: a woman's head on the body of a pig, pissing copiously backwards.

Ask one of the lovely lady guides to show you the file with photos and names of the instruments and also to point out the carving in the nave of the angel playing a shawm with the head of another angel above it with a grimacing face covering its ears. I reckon the people who carved these figures were having a whale of a time.

Oh, and lunch at the Green Dragon is also a must!