College of the Valley Scholars

[3] In 1261, there were severe disputes in the University of Cambridge, then barely fifty years old, between Northern and Southern men, which caused a large number of scholars to migrate to Northampton.

[3] He planned to build it in a meadow by the new Salisbury Cathedral, which was still being built, and the king's highway, in front of St Nicholas Hospital.

It was to maintain forever one warden, two chaplains, and twenty poor, needy, and honourable scholars, living in the college, serving God and Saint Nicholas, and studying theology and the liberal arts.

[7] A history of Winchester College in 1893 calls it "the House of the Valley Scholars of Saint Nicholas of Salisbury".

[1] The city continued as a centre of teaching in theology and the liberal arts until well into the 14th century,[11] with most of the scholars transferring to Salisbury Hall, Oxford, in 1325.

Its house, with one and a half acres of gardens and orchards, its manors of West and East Harnham and Britford, its holdings in Lavington and Roundway, and the rectories and advowsons of vicarages of Milborne and Dewlish, were sold for £437 10s.

In 1545, fifteen messuages (dwellings) and gardens in Salisbury were sold to John Pollard, a king's servant, and William Byrte, a yeoman.

A study for the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England says "Hall's assertion that 'the whole edifice is now demolished' is inaccurate.