Minster Street is in the centre of Salisbury. It runs from the Poultry Cross to the Cheesemarket, or to put it another way, from the junction of Blue Boar Row and Castle Street to the junction of Silver Street and Butcher Row.
It runs closely parallel with the Eastern edge of the grounds of the Church of Saint Thomas a Becket, with only the single row of buildings between Minster Street and the graveyard.
The Haunch of Venison in Minster Street, Salisbury
‘the most direct way from the cathedral to Old Salisbury and included the whole of the present High Street, Minster Street, and Castle Street ‘1
The word ‘minster’ itself is ‘from Old English mynster, from Vulgar Latin monisterium, from Late Latin monasterium, monastery.’2. It broadly seems to mean a monastic or collegiate church.
Given that at one time Minster Street ran all the way from Castle Gate to the Cathedral the word ‘minster’ could be referring to either Saint Thomas’ Church or to the Cathedral itself.
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Footnotes
- ‘Salisbury: St Thomas’s parish’, A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 6 (1962), pp. 81-83. [↩]
- minster: Definition from Answers.com [↩]
