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 The Minster (Cathedral) Hotel - Milford Street, Salisbury, UK
N 51° 04.124 W 001° 47.617
30U E 584524 N 5658160
A plaque on the south face of the Cathedral Hotel advises that this was used as the location for the "Minster Hotel" in her book "Whose Body?" where her famous fictional detective, Lord Peter Wimdey, had lunch.
Waymark Code: WM137JK
Location: Southern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/04/2020
Views: 2
The
blue plaque on the hotel tells us:
Salisbury Civic Society
Dorothy L Sayers
Godolphin School
1909 - 1911
wrote in her novel
"Whose Body?"
that Lord Peter Wimsey
lunched here.
The Cathedral Hotel |
The Creative
Wiltshire website advises:
| We are just over a month into our Creative
Wiltshire project and are busy developing a collections policy
as well as researching material to enable us to compile a
database of creative people with a Wiltshire connection. This is
proving fascinating as it can highlight gaps in our collection
and while looking at older copies of Wiltshire Life magazine we
discovered that Dorothy L. Sayers, creator of Lord Peter Wimsey,
was a pupil at Godolphin School, Salisbury from 1909 to 1911. A
plaque has been awarded by Salisbury Civic Society to the
Cathedral Hotel, frequented by both Dorothy L. Sayers with her
Aunt Gertrude and also Lord Peter Wimsey himself, in Whose Body?
published in 1923, his first adventure as a detective. |
This website
contains the text from "Whose Body?":
It was its comparative proximity to Milford Hill
that induced Lord Peter to lunch at the Minster Hotel rather
than at the White Hart or some other more picturesquely situated
hostel. It was not a lunch calculated to cheer his mind; as in
all Cathedral cities, the atmosphere of the Close pervades every
nook and corner of Salisbury, and no food in that city but seems
faintly flavoured with prayer-books. As he sat sadly consuming
that impassive pale substance known to the English as "cheese"
unqualified (for there are cheeses which go openly by their
names, as Stilton, Camembert, Gruyère, Wensleydale or
Gorgonzola, but "cheese" is cheese and everywhere the same), he
enquired of the waiter the whereabouts of Mr. Crimplesham's
office.
The waiter directed him to a house rather further up the street
on the opposite side, adding, "But anybody'll tell you, sir; Mr.
Crimplesham's very well known hereabouts."
"He's a good solicitor, I suppose?" said Lord Peter.
"Oh, yes, sir," said the waiter, "you couldn't do better than
trust to Mr. Crimplesham, sir. There's folk say he's
old-fashioned, but I'd rather have my little bits of business
done by Mr. Crimplesham than by one of these fly-away young men.
Not but what Mr. Crimplesham'll be retiring soon, sir, I don't
doubt, for he must be close on eighty, sir, if he's a day, but
then there's young Mr. Wicks to carry on the business, and he's
a very nice, steady-like young gentleman." |
Short Description: The Cathedral Hotel was used by Dorothy Sayes and became the Minster Hotel in her book "Whose Body?".
Book Title: Whose Body?
First Year Published: 1923
Author's Name: Dorothy L Sayers
Name of Waymarked Item: Cathedral Hotel
Location of Item: Milford Street, Salisbury
More Information:
Lord Peter Wimsey had lunch there whilst visiting a solicitor.
Admission Price?: 0.00 (listed in local currency)
Link to more information about the book or waymarked item.: [Web Link]
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