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THE 

 BURIAL PLACES OF THE BISHOPS OF SALISBURY. 



By A. R. Malden, F.S.A. 



During the time that the Cathedral of Salisbury stood at what 

 is now called Old Saruni tliere were six Bishops of Salisbury, not 

 including Richard Poore who built the present Cathedral. 



The first Bishop of Old Salisbury was Herman, a Fleming by 

 birth, wlio united the two sees of Ramsbury and Sherborne into 

 one at Salisbury. Herman died in 1078, and I do not know of 

 any record of his burial place. In the Osmund Register there is 

 an account of the translation of the remains of former bishops from 

 the old to the new Cathedral, but Herman's name is not mentioned. 

 The old Cathedral was barely began when he died and it seems to 

 l)e more probable that he found a resting place at Sherborne, wliere 

 he usually lived, than that he was buried at Salisbury. There is a 

 plain tombof early date made of Purbeck marble standing near the 

 west end of the present Cathedral, which is often called the tomb 

 of P>ishop Herman, but for this ascription I know of no authority, 

 and the common tradition must not be accepted as certainly true. 



St. Osmund succeeded Herman in 1078, and died in 1099. He 

 was buried in the Cathedral that he had built at Old Sarum. By 

 the year 1225 the east end of the new Cathedral had been com- 

 pleted so far as to allow of the consecration of the Lady Chapel, 

 and Bishop Richard Poore foreseeing that the new Cathedral would 

 not be completed in his own time, and fearing that after his death 

 the zeal of his successors might wax cold and the building of the 

 new Cathedral be discontinucMl, and a I'oturn niiulc tt» (he old one. 

 began to ])ull down the ('atluHlral at Old Saruni, and in 122l) lh<' 

 l)odies of St. O.smund and his two successors, Roger and docidin. 

 were brought thence and r(^-huri(Ml in the new Cathoilral. .*^t. 

 Osmund's ])]ac(' of Imrial is said to havo boon in iho niiddlo (^\ iho 

 Lady ('ha])o], Imt acrording to Loland his lirst ionil> was en iho 



