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Sarum
Sarum may refer to: Places *either of two cities in Wiltshire, England: ** Salisbury, also known as New Sarum ** Old Sarum, the ruins of old Salisbury * Sarum (Newport, Maryland), a historic house in Newport, Maryland, United States * Sarum Chase, a historic house in London, England * Sirmaniyah or Sarmin, two villages in Syria identified as the possible birthplace of the Catholic saint John Maron Religion * Sarum, an archaic name for the English diocese of Salisbury, still used in some contexts including Archdeacon of Sarum * Sarum Rite, the major liturgical rite in England prior to the English Reformation Other uses * Sarum, The Spirit of Salisbury School * ''Sarum'' (beetle), a genus of beetles in the family Chrysomelidae * Sarum lectures, at the University of Oxford * ''Sarum'' (novel), a 1987 work of historical fiction * Sarum, a style of cassock The cassock, or soutane, is a Christian clerical clothing, clerical coat used by the clergy and Consecrated life, male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salisbury
Salisbury ( , ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and civil parish in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers River Avon, Hampshire, Avon, River Nadder, Nadder and River Bourne, Wiltshire, Bourne. The city is approximately from Southampton and from Bath, Somerset, Bath. Salisbury is in the southeast of Wiltshire, near the edge of Salisbury Plain. An ancient cathedral was north of the present city at Old Sarum Cathedral, Old Sarum. A Salisbury Cathedral, new cathedral was built near the meeting of the rivers and a settlement grew up around it, which received a city charter in 1227 as . This continued to be its official name until 2009 structural changes to local government in England, 2009, when Salisbury City Council was established. Salisbury railway station is an interchange between the West of England line, West of England Line and the Wessex Main Line. Stonehenge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is northwest o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Sarum
Old Sarum, in Wiltshire, South West England, is the ruined and deserted site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury. Situated on a hill about north of modern Salisbury near the A345 road, the settlement appears in some of the earliest records in the country. It is an English Heritage property and is open to the public. The great stone circles of Stonehenge and Avebury were erected nearby and indications of #Prehistory, prehistoric settlement have been discovered from as early as 3000 BC. An British Iron Age, Iron Age British hillforts, hillfort was erected around 400 BC, controlling the intersection of two trade paths and the Hampshire River Avon, Hampshire, Avon. The site continued to be occupied during the #Roman period, Roman period, when the paths were made into Roman roads in Britain, roads. The #Saxon period, Saxons took the Britons (Celtic people), British fort in the 6th century and later used it as a stronghold against Viking invasions of England, maraudin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarum (Newport, Maryland)
Sarum is a historic home located at Newport, Charles County, Maryland, US. The oldest extant part of the house was built in 1717 by Joseph Pile on or near the site of his grandfather's 17th century house. It was a box-framed hall and parlor dwelling, 32 by 18 feet. A shed was added in 1736; later in the 1800s the ends were extended and new walls of brick were constructed giving the house its present dimensions. Sarum was patented to John Pile in 1662, and remained in the ownership of the Pile family until 1836. It is one of Maryland's finest small Colonial dwellings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ... in 1974. References External links *, including photo from 1978, at Maryland Historical Trust * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarum Chase
Sarum Chase is a large detached neo-Tudor mansion, at 23 West Heath Road, Hampstead, London,Maurice Bradshaw, ‘Salisbury, Francis Owen (1874–1962)’, rev. Charles Noble, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 200accessed 17 July 2011/ref> described by Nicholas Pevsner as "pure Hollywood Tudor". The house is listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England. The gates, railings and wall to the grounds of the house are also individually Grade II listed. It was built in 1932 as the home and studio of portrait artist Frank O. Salisbury. The word ''Sarum'' is the old name for the town of Salisbury. The architect was Vyvyan Salisbury, his nephew. The artist's wife cut the first sod on the site, on 4 September 1932. They moved in on 4 July 1933. In his 1953 autobiography, also titled ''Sarum Chase''., Salisbury wrote: Telegraph Hill rises from the junction of Platt’s Lane and West Heath Road to one of the highest points ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sirmaniyah
Sirmaniyah ( ''Sirmāniyah'', also spelled ''Sarmania'', ''al-Sarmaniyah'', ''Sermaniye'') is a village in northern Syria, administratively part of the Hama Governorate, northwest of Hama. Nearby localities include Jisr al-Shughur 12 kilometers to the north, Qarqur to the northeast, al-Ziyarah to the southeast and Farikah to the south. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Sirmaniyah had a population of 2,087 in the 2004 census.General Census of Population and Housing 2004 . Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Hama Governorate. Its inhabitants are predominantly |
Sarmin
Sarmin ( also spelled Sarmeen) is a town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Idlib Governorate, located 15 kilometers southeast of Idlib. It has an altitude of about 390 meters. Nearby localities include Binnish to the north, Talhiyah to the northeast, Afs to the east, Saraqib to the southeast, al-Nayrab to the south and Qminas to southwest. The Taftanaz Military Airbase is located to the northeast. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Sarmin had a population of 14,530 in the 2004 census. It is the only locality in the Sarmin ''nahiyah'' ("subdistrict"). The Ayyubid ruler of Hama and scholar Abu'l-Fida described Sarmin as a town with much land and dependencies, with very fertile soil. The town had a Friday mosque and lacked walls. In 1355 Sarmin was visited by Ibn Battuta, who wrote of the abundance of trees, mostly olive The olive, botanical name ''Olea europaea'' ("European olive"), is a species of Subtropics, subtropical ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archdeacon Of Sarum
The Archdeacon of Sarum is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Salisbury, England. He or she is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy within the five Rural Dean, area deaneries of the Sarum archdeaconry, which cover the geographical areas of Alderbury, Chalke (west of Salisbury), Salisbury, Heytesbury and Stonehenge (north of Salisbury). The post is currently held by Venerable, the Ven Alan Jeans. History The first recorded archdeacons in Salisbury diocese occur soon after the Norman Conquest (as they do across England) and there were apparently four archdeacons from the outset. However, no territorial titles are recorded until after . The archdeacons at that time were (in order of seniority) the Archdeacons of Dorset, Berkshire, Sarum and Wiltshire. The position was redefined in 1843, having been previously generally known as the Archdeaconry of Salisbury; the role is now generally called Archdeacon of Sarum, but both names have been used c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarum Rite
The Use of Sarum (or Use of Salisbury, also known as the Sarum Rite) is the Use (liturgy), liturgical use of the Latin liturgical rites, Latin rites developed at Salisbury Cathedral and used from the late eleventh century until the English Reformation. It is largely identical to the Roman Rite, with about ten per cent of its material drawn from other sources. The cathedral's liturgy was widely respected during the late Middle Ages, and churches throughout the British Isles and parts of northwestern Europe adapted its customs for celebrations of the Eucharist and canonical hours. The Sarum Rite has a unique ecumenical position in influencing and being authorized for liturgical use by the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, as well as the Anglican Communion. Origins In 1078, William of Normandy appointed Saint Osmund, Osmund, a Normans, Norman nobleman, as bishop of Salisbury (the period name of the site whose ruins are now known as Old Sarum). As bishop, Osmund initia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salisbury School
Salisbury School is an elite all-boys, private college-preparatory boarding school in Salisbury, Connecticut. It was founded in 1901 by the Reverend George E. Quaile, former headmaster of St. Austin's Military School in Staten Island, New York. Its school newspaper is ''The Cupola''. Its mascot is the Crimson Knight. In 2015, ''Business Insider'' ranked it the most expensive private high school in the United States. Notable alumni * Prince Ali bin Al Hussein (1993) - Brother of King Abdullah II of Jordan; Vice-President, Federation Internationale de Football (FIFA) * Mark Arcobello (2006) - Professional hockey player, US Olympic Team, 2018 * Christopher Atkins (1980) - Actor, ''The Blue Lagoon, The Pirate Movie, A Night in Heaven'', and others * Alex Biega (2006) - Professional hockey player, Vancouver Canucks, NHL * Peter Bohlin (1955) - Architect; designer of Apple retail stores worldwide. * Josiah Bunting III (1957) - Educator and author; retired superintendent of Virgi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarum (beetle)
''Sarum'' is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae, found in Africa. Most of its species were originally placed in '' Rhembastus''. Species * '' Sarum baerti'' Selman, 1972 * '' Sarum geminatus'' ( Jacoby, 1900) * '' Sarum inermis'' ( Jacoby, 1901) * '' Sarum mashonanus'' ( Jacoby, 1901) * '' Sarum monardi'' (Pic, 1940) * '' Sarum obscurellus'' ( Gerstaecker, 1871) * ''Sarum pergeminatus ''Sarum pergeminatus'' is a species of leaf beetle. It is distributed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic t ...'' (Burgeon, 1941) References Eumolpinae Chrysomelidae genera Beetles of Africa {{Eumolpinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarum Lectures
John Bampton (16902 June 1751) was an English churchman who founded the Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford. Biography Bampton's father was Jasper Bampton of Salisbury. In 1705 at age 16 he was admitted to Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1709, M.A. in 1712. He was rector of Stratford Tony, Wiltshire, and simultaneously a prebendary of Salisbury, from April 1718 until his death in 1751.Sidney Leslie Ollard (editor) (1912), ''Dictionary of English Church History'', article Bampton, John, p. 36. Will establishing lectures He is now remembered chiefly because of the contents of his will, which directs that eight lectures shall be delivered annually at Oxford in the University Church on as many Sunday mornings in full term, "between the commencement of the last month in Lent term and the end of the third week in Act term, upon either of the following subjects: to confirm and establish the Christian faith, and to confute all heretics and schismatics; upon t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarum (novel)
''Sarum'' (also titled ''Sarum: The Novel of England'') is a work of historical fiction by Edward Rutherfurd, first published in 1987. It is Rutherfurd's literary debut. It tells the story of England through the tales of several families in and around the English city of Salisbury, the writer's hometown, from prehistoric times to 1985. Characters The main families of ''Sarum'' include: * Forest * Wilson * Porters * Mason * Shockley * Godfrey Synopsis The story covers major points of British history. The following chapter listing parallels major periods and events : Old Sarum * Journey to Sarum (prehistoric Britain, 7500 BC) * The Barrow (the arrival of agriculture in Britain, 4000 BC) * The Henge (the building of Stonehenge, 2000 BC) * Sorviodunum (the arrival of the Romans, 42 AD) * Twilight (the fall of the Roman Empire/arrival of the Saxons, 427 AD) * The Two Rivers (arrival of the Vikings/uniting of England, 877 AD) * The Castle (Norman England, 1139 AD) New Sarum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
