I know that it looks like he's waiting to be hit by the cars:
but he's actually standing on the very edge of a pedestrianized area,
waiting for the traffic to clear...!

(Taken yesterday, when the sun shone.
Today, all it did was rain....)

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From the Salisbury Cathedral Close Guide:
"Built between 1327 and 1342 the High Street Gate is the main point of entry into the Cathedral Close.
It housed the small lock-up jail for those convicted of misdeeds within the Liberty of the Close. Beside the gate stands the Porter's Lodge.
The post of Porter to the Close was a much sought-after sinecure for the servants of kings and nobles in the middle ages.
Before the building of St Osmund's Roman Catholic Church in Exeter Street
a Roman Catholic Chapel was registered as being in the lodge."

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