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Saint Ann Street is in the centre of Salisbury. It runs from the Cathedral close up towards Saint Martins. Saint Ann Place is just off of St Ann Street. Which Saint Ann was the Salisbury street named after There are two Saint Ann(e)s listed in the Catholic Encyclopedia: Saint Anne, the mother of Mary St. . . . → Read More: St Ann Place and St Ann Street Salisbury Saint Brendan was a 5th century Irish saint 1, known both for his evangelism within the British Isles and for his seven year Voyage. The Voyage of Saint Brendan may or may not have taken him as far as America. There is a good article on the Fortean Times website that discusses this, concluding that . . . → Read More: St Brendans Close, Salisbury Saint Christopher is, famously, the patron saint of travellers. There are a dozen or so significant episodes in Christopher’s life: Birth The wife of a pagan king prayed to the Virgin Mary for a son. Her prayers were granted, and she named the son either Offerus or Reprebus.1 Reprebus, according to Wikipedia, is the derivation . . . → Read More: St Christophers Close, Salisbury Saint Clements Way is on Salisbury’s ‘Bishopdown Farm’ estate, which is to the north of the city, off the London Road. It shares the theme of many of the roads on the estate of being named after a saint. Most of these have no local connections at all, at least as far as I . . . → Read More: St Clements Way, Salisbury There were two Saint Davids, and given that St Davids Close is part of the Bishopdown estate, where most of the roads are named after different saints, it could equally be named after either. King David King David was a pivotal figure in Jewish history. He is the David of ‘David and Goliath’, of the . . . → Read More: St Davids Close, Salisbury Saint Ediths Close, in Wilton, is most likely to be named after Saint Edith of Wilton. She was the great-granddaughter of Alfred the Great, and daughter of King Edgar the Peaceful. . . . → Read More: St Ediths Close, Wilton St Edmunds Church is in the centre of Salisbury – it is one of the three old central Salisbury parishes, the other two being Saint Thomas’ and Saint Martin’s. . . . → Read More: St Edmunds Church St, Salisbury Statue of Saint Francis in Salisbury Cathedral St Francis Road, which is off the main road between Salisbury and Amesbury, would be named after Saint Francis Church. St Francis of Assissi is famously associated with animals. He was born in 1181 into a wealthy family, but he used his wealth to rebuild the Church . . . → Read More: St Francis Road, Salisbury George and Dragon, Salisbury Saint George was a third century soldier and, famously, a dragon-slayer. He came upon the dragon in Libya. The king’s daughter was about to be sacrificed to the dragon. The king offered Saint George gold and silver to save his daughter. George refused, but asked that if he slew the . . . → Read More: St Georges Road, Harnham The Church of Saint Gregory and the English Marytrs was built, in what is now St Gregorys Avenue, in 1938 1. St Gregorys is to the North of Salisbury, adjoining Roman Road and Devizes Road. There were many Saint Gregorys: St. Gregory of Nazianzus St. Gregory of Neocaesarea St. Gregory of Nyssa St. Gregory of . . . → Read More: St Gregorys Avenue SP2 |
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