On the southern wall is a brightly decorated pietà, a copy of one that possibly used to be in the earlier Gothic cathedral.

This separation came about when the church was rebuilt and displaced to the southwest of the earlier Romanesque cathedral.

Fed up with the earlier cathedral, the high Renaissance churchmen decided to go for something modern, advancing on the old one, segment by segment.

An earlier cathedral was located, between 1075 and 1228, on the hill top near the ancient fort at Old Sarum.

This is of 19th-century work and shows figures associated with the early cathedral.

The west façade is on a particularly grand scale when compared to earlier cathedrals.

Unlike earlier cathedrals which had steep pitched roofs, the ceiling has a barrelled shape so it, with only a faint apex.

It was rebuilt on the foundations of an earlier Romanesque cathedral in the early thirteenth century and largely completed by 1237.

St James's Church resembles a miniature of an early English cathedral.

It is built on the foundations of an earlier cathedral.