Salisbury Cathedral flower arrangers using foliage to tell story of Christmas

It's part of the festive activities inside the building this year

Author: Jack DeeryPublished 14th Dec 2020

The Christmas story is being told in a unique way at Salisbury Cathedral this year.

30 of it's flower arrangers have put their skills to the test to create a 'Christmas Trail' around the inside of the building for visitors to come and look at.

There will be twelve stops along the tour, with festive themed decorations made out of seasonal foliage.

Some of the displays in the trail

They've worked on their own separate designs, which include the barn Jesus was born in and two angels.

It finishes with the 32ft Norwegian Spruce tree standing at the west side of the building, which was decorated and put up last week.

The Christmas tree in Salisbury Cathedral this year

There is also a Christmas themed selfie frame for visitors to take funny pictures with.

Michael Bowyer, the Cathedral's Director of Flowers, told Greatest Hits Radio:

"We weren't able to hold our fantastic 800 year anniversary flower festival in the Autumn so this sort of makes up for it, it's on a much smaller scale and it's being done by all the volunteer flower arrangers at the Cathedral and they are so pleased to be back in the building because they haven't really been in arranging since March.

When you enter the building you'll see a winter wonderland of silver sparkles awaiting you with lots of displays all linked to advent and Christmas so we have things like Holly and Ivy and small festive decorations.

We drew up the plans on paper, normally we'd have the arrangers in and explain how it's all going to work but we weren't able to do that this year, everything has had to be done by email and by correspondence but they've all just arrived and done it and they've really come up trumps, it's looking tremendous."

The trail can be seen by visiting the Cathedral until the beginning of January.