Salisbury Cathedral's new clerk has climbed to the top of its spire to inspect it in preparation for a new digital instrument being installed. There is already a wind speed meter on the spire ...

Salisbury Cathedral conservators film themselves scaling Britain's highest spire to repair weather meter. Spectacular video has been captured by conservators working at the top of Britain's ...

THE suspects in the Salisbury nerve agent attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal have claimed they were in the city sightseeing, including to look at its famous cathedral. Alexander Petrov and Ruslan B… ...

This is the hair-raising moment two workers at Salisbury Cathedral ascended Britain's tallest spire to change the warning lights for air traffic. Richard Pike and Gary Price spent three hours ...

Gary Price, 46, took the ultimate selfie 404ft above the ground from the capstone at the very top of the spire at Salisbury Cathedral in Wiltshire. He made the climb to replace a faulty wind meter.

You can see it from miles away, rising up from Salisbury Plain like a slender finger of stone. Pointing skywards, massive but insubstantial, the tallest and arguably most impressive spire in the ...

The 404-foot stone spire in the center of the cathedral is the tallest in Britain — and inspired William Golding’s novel “The Spire,” based on the 20-year construction of the tower.

Salisbury Cathedral's new clerk climbs its spire to inspect it in preparation for a new digital instrument ... Salisbury Cathedral spire to get digital anemometer. Published. 24 February 2013. Share.