Sir George Gilbert Scott was commissioned to 'rethink' Salisbury Cathedral, and he redesigned much of the choir area, including the removal of a late-eighteenth century choir screen and reredos by James Wyatt, replacing them with a filigree iron choir screen and the reredos here pictured. In turn, Scott's remodelled architectural elements were removed in the mid-nineteenth century, when a new school of thought dictated thatthere should be an uninterrupted view from nave to choir, high altar and Lady Chapel.
This is part of the Series: RBO01/45 Early Photographic Print Collection: Wiltshire; within the Collection: RBO01 Early Photographic Print Collection
Source: Historic England Archive
Architect: Scott, George Gilbert
Altar, Reredos, Sculpture, Medieval Cathedral
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