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The fabric accounts of Salisbury Cathedral, which survive from 1464, chart not only repairs to the building itself, both in the planning of the work by church officials and in the activities of the various tradesman who implemented those plans, but also the wider history that these alterations and repairs represented. This edition comprises a full transcript of thirty-one years of accounts from the Elizabethan period, which offer important insights into the impact of the Reformation and the Elizabethan religious settlement. The accounts show how the cathedral and its officials navigated these changes, adapting to new Protestant forms of worship in many areas whilst maintaining continuity with the past in others. They also reveal much about the lives of the cathedral officials and craftsmen who administered and carried out these works throughout this period, and highlight the role of the cathedral in the Elizabethan city not only as a major religious institution but as an important landlord, employer and consumer. Dr Wadsworth provides an extensive introduction to the text which sets the historical context and describes the broad trends discernible in the accounts. Volume 79 in the Wiltshire Record Society series. November 2026, lxviii, 538 pages, hardback, £20.00, ISBN 978–0–901333–56–8
The fabric accounts of Salisbury Cathedral, which survive from 1464, chart not only repairs to the building itself, both in the planning of the work by church officials and in the activities of the various tradesman who implemented those plans, but also the wider history that these alterations and repairs represented. This edition comprises a full transcript of thirty-one years of accounts from the Elizabethan period, which offer important insights into the impact of the Reformation and the Elizabethan religious settlement. The accounts show how the cathedral and its officials navigated these changes, adapting to new Protestant forms of worship in many areas whilst maintaining continuity with the past in others. They also reveal much about the lives of the cathedral officials and craftsmen who administered and carried out these works throughout this period, and highlight the role of the cathedral in the Elizabethan city not only as a major religious institution but as an important landlord, employer and consumer. Dr Wadsworth provides an extensive introduction to the text which sets the historical context and describes the broad trends discernible in the accounts. Volume 79 in the Wiltshire Record Society series. November 2026, lxviii, 538 pages, hardback, £20.00, ISBN 978–0–901333–56–8