Archive: George Herbert PhotoAlbum 4

 

Salisbury:

Salisbury Cathedral (Nineteenth Century Etching)

[Click Etching for Enlargement at Southwest College, Houston, site]

St. Mary, Salisbury Cathedral. Click to go to tour Cathedral at Virginia site.

St. Mary, Salisbury Cathedral, origin of the Sarum Rite of the Church

Chapel and Shrine of St. Osmond in Salisbury Cathedral

St. Osmond Chapel at Salisbury

Salisbury Cathedral, View of the Transcept. Click photograph to go to tour Cathedral at Virginia site.

Salisbury Cathedral, Inside View of the Transcept. Late English Gothic architecture with Tudor arch.  


Edington parish church, Wiltshire, March, 5, 1628/29, George Herbert marries Jane Danvers, his step-father's cousin. They lived in Edington at least a year after their marriage.

St. Mary, St. Katherine and All Souls, Edington, Wiltshire [from StoneAngels site no longer on the Web]


Bemerton , Wiltshire:

Bemerton from the West (Etching c. Nineteenth Century)

[Click Etching for Enlargement at Southwest College, Houston, site]

St. Andrew's, Bemerton , Showing Part of Rectory

[Click Etching for Enlargement at Southwest College, Houston, site]

St. Andrew's Church dating from the 13th Century. One mile west of Salisbury Cathedral, (Photograph about 1960 Courtesy of The Friends of Bemerton Society)

Bemerton Church (Nave and Altar, Nineteenth Century Etching)

[Click Etching for Enlargement at Southwest College, Houston, site]

George Herbert died on March 1, 1632/3 and buried on Quinquagesima
(the Sunday before Ash Wednesday).
"Mr. George Herbert, Esq. Parson of Fuggleston and Bemerton, was buried 3d day of March, 1632." -- Parish Register of Bemerton.
(Interior Photograph about 1960 Courtesy of The Friends of Bemerton Society)

Entrance to St. Andrew's Bemerton

Entrance and Rear of the Nave to St. Andrew's Bemerton
From StoneAngels Website (no longer on the Web)

Said to be Herbert's Inscription in the Rectory.
To my Successor.
   If thou chance for to find
   A new House to thy mind,
And built without thy Cost:
   Be good to the Poor,
   As God gives thee store,
And then, my Labour's not lost.

From StoneAngels Website (no longer on the Web)

Inscription in Rectory

[Rectory at Bemerton]

Bemerton Rectory on the banks of the River Nadder (now part of Salisbury) [house dating from 1470 restored by George Herbert] / Medlar Tree That George Herbert Planted 1630 (Photograph Courtesy of The Friends of Bemerton Society)

Map of Fugglestone St. Peter and Bemerton,
now suburbs of Salisbury

Map of Bemerton

 

 
PhotoAlbum 1: Childhood and School PhotoAlbum 2: Cambridge PhotoAlbum 3: Toward Bemerton     PhotoAlbum 4: Bemerton
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