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The Old Deanery, Salisbury

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Norman Drinkwater
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An inspection of the Old Deanery in 1948 failed, for some reason unknown, to disclose the early date of the building. Neither the medieval form of the plan nor the antiquity of the Hall roof were recognized. In default of any clear case for preservation on archaeological grounds, and though the case on scenic grounds was very strong, the decision was made to demolish the building to make way sooner or later for the development of a Ladies' Training College, despite pleas for preservation from the Local Planning Authority and from Mr. H. de S. Shortt, Curator of the Salisbury Museum.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , March 1964 , pp. 41 - 59
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1964

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page 41 note 1 I am very grateful to the Commissioners for their permission to use here the notes and drawings made in the course of the survey and restoration of the building and to their Secretary, Mr. A. R. Dufty, F.S.A., A.R.I.B.A., for recasting and editing this account.

page 43 note 1 In this account the two service rooms are called the East and West Butteries (see plan, fig. 3); originally one was the Buttery, the other the Pantry, but it is not now possible to know which was which; such evidence as there is points to the west room being the original Buttery.

page 43 note 2 In this account the use of the word ‘Camera’ for the principal chamber (camera principalis) on the first floor is more appropriate in the context than ‘Solar’.

page 44 note 1 Everett, C. R., ‘Notes on the Decanal and other Houses in the Close of Sarum’, in Wilts. Arch. Mag. 1 (1944), 425.Google Scholar

page 44 note 2 Ibid., 427.

page 44 note 3 Cathedral Muniment Room. Press II. Chapter Act Book, Hutchins Anno 1440, folio 27.

page 44 note 4 In the Hall were seven tables, the larger measuring 7 ells, 6 ells, and 5½ ells long respectively, complete with settles or forms; in the principal chamber were two tables 4 ells and 5 ells long, again with their forms. [An ell was about 39 in.]

page 44 note 5 Everett, op. cit., 428–9.

page 44 note 6 Ibid., p. 429.

page 46 note 1 In the Library of the Wiltshire Archaeological Society at Devizes.

page 54 note 1 I am indebted to my colleague Mr. P. Fowler for help and advice in the excavation of the open hearth.

page 55 note 1 Borenius, Tancred and Charlton, John, ‘Clarendon Palace: An Interim Report’, in Antiquaries Journal, xvi (1936).Google Scholar

page 56 note 1 Cathedral Muniment Room. Press II. Chapter Act Book, Hutchins Anno 1440, folio 27. (I am indebted to Mrs. H. Bonney for the transcription of this document. The English words in double quotes are in English in the Survey.)

page 58 note 1 Everett, op. cit., 428–9.

page 59 note 1 Ibid., 429.