Canon A.F. Smethurst, Salisbury Cathedral. (London: Pitkin Pictorials Limited, 1990).
Pamphlet with excellent color photographs and a brief historical text.
City of Salisbury (London: Pitkin Pictorials Limited, 1991).
Pamphlet with excellent color photographs and a brief historical text.
Roger Croft, Salisbury Cathedral Close Guide (Salisbury: Close Publication, 1997).
Fine color pictures of a selection of the houses of the Close with a brief text.
Roy Spring, Salisbury Cathedral a landmark in England's heritage (London: Shell Publicity Services, 1991).
Roy Spring, Salisbury Cathedral , from New Bell's Cathedral Guides (London: Unwin Hyman, 1987).
Excellent guide but unfortunately out-of-print.
Canon David Durston, The Chapter House Salisbury Cathedral (1995).
Clear but small photographs of individual scenes of the Old Testment carved in relief on the interior of the chapter house. No general pictures of the interior, however.
Rena Gardiner, The Story of Salisbury Cathedral (Tarrant Monkton, Dorset: Workshop Press, 1994).
Drawings and brief historical text that are not just for children. The only publication that gives some indication, albeit over-enthusiastically, of the color that once graced Salisbury Cathedral inside and out.
Roy Spring, Mark of the Mason at Salisbury Cathedral (Much Wenlock: RJK Smith and Associates, 1995).
Former clerk of the works discusses mason's marks. Good color photographs.
Roy Spring, Stained Glass Salisbury Cathedral (Much Wenlock: RJK Smith and Associates, 1997).
Pamphlet inventory of stained glass in the cathedral from the middle ages to the present. One wishes it were fully illustrated.
Daphne Stroud, Saint Osmund of Salisbury (Much Wenlock: RJK Smith and Associates, 1994).
Biography of Salisbury Cathedral's only saint by a noted historian.
Daphne Stroud, Richard Poore and the building of Salisbury Cathedral (Salisbury: Cathedral Print Services Ltd, 1997).
Biographical essay of the first bishop of the thirteenth-century cathedral.
Adrian Hastings, Elias of Dereham Architect of Salisbury Cathedral (Much Wenlock: RJK Smith and Associates, 1997).
Useful discussion of the first clerk of the works at Salisbury Cathedral written by a professor of religious studies. Elias was not an architect or (more properly) a master mason, however, but an administrator.
Clifford Dobson, The Jewel of Salisbury (Much Wenlock: RJK Smith and Associates, 1996).
Biographical essay about Bishop John Jewel (1522-1571).
