Church Commissioners

Deanery

Chancellorship

Vicars Choral

Treasurership

Sub-Chantry

Precentorship

Chapter

Bishoprick

Prebends

Maps

Within each group, the former numbering system has been abandoned, and the order considerably re-arranged so that where possible all the documents relating to one property are now together. The old numbers have been noted, prefaced with the letters "C.C."

• <corpname>Ecclesiastical Commissioners</corpname>
• <corpname>Church Commissioners</corpname>

The documents listed here relate to property formerly belonging to the Bishop, the Chapter, and various dignitaries of Salisbury Cathedral. They were acquired in the mid-nineteenth century by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners (now the Church Commissioners). In February and April 1963 they were transferred to the Salisbury Diocesan Record Office (Acc. 7) and in September 1966 a few very early deeds which had strayed to the Public Record Office were returned to Salisbury (Acc. 14). A further deposit was made in December 1967 (Acc. 22.) Both the later accessions were so closely related to the first that it was thought best to integrate and list them as one, thus in some cases reuniting a deed with its counterpart, or an isolated early deed with a later series relating to the same property.

The documents when returned had been grouped under owners, numbered, and listed in numerical order. The system of grouping under owners has been retained.

When the documents were returned by the Church Commissioners, some were described on the list as either missing or handed away.

A few bundles were damaged by the water from firemen's hoses during the second world war while still at Millbank; most have been left, but a few were calendared as far as possible and then destroyed.