446 The Sixtieth General Meeting. 



throwing up of the inner bank in Norman times. This was de- 

 fended originally by a timber palisade, succeeded afterwards by a 

 continuous wall of masonry. At the entrance was a large and 

 important gatehouse with the parish church of the Holy Cross over 

 it. The western gateway, on the other hand, was a mere archway 

 through the wall. Dr. Hope spoke strongly against the action of 

 the County Council, who had acquired grass land just outside the 

 fortifications and proposed to break it up for allotments, &c. This 

 ought to be permanently prevented or great disfigurement of the 

 monument would result. Inside the Castle Col. Hawley described 

 the various portions excavated. Dr. St. John Hope said the Castle 

 was in ruins in the middle of the 15th century, and was finally 

 destroyed in 1514, only ruins being left, as seen by Leland. The 

 party then proceeded to the site of the Cathedral Church, which 

 was described by Dr. St. John Hope. He said that the Council of 

 London in 1051, selected Old Sarum as one of the places to which 

 bishops' sees were to be moved. Therefore there must then have 

 been standing a Church of sufficient importance for the see to be 

 transferred to it. • The Norman Church which succeeded the Saxon 

 building was begun by Bishop Herman and finished by Bishop 

 Osmund in 1091. This Church the day after the hallowing of the 

 high altar was struck by lightning and burnt. How far it was 

 destroyed we do not know, but there was a Church of considerable 

 interest in existence about 1140, the proof of which lay in the 

 moulded and sculptured stones they had found in the excavations. 

 In 1220 the Cathedral of New Sarum was founded and twelve 

 years later it was sufficiently completed for the clergy to move 

 away from the old Church. The complete destruction of the old 

 Cathedral, however, did not take place until much later. A license 

 of 1276 refers to a grant to the Bishop, Dean, and Chapter of 

 the remains of the Bishop's Palace and Canons' houses at Old Sarum, 

 and in 1331 a charter of Edward III. grants to the Dean and 

 Chapter license " to have of our gift all the stone walls of the 

 former Cathedral Church of Old Sarum, and of the houses that 

 were formerly those of the Bishop and Canons ... for the 

 repair of their Church of New Sarum and the enclosure of the 



