The Blackmore Museum To The Rear Of The Salsbury Museum

The Blackmore Museum, located to the rear of the Salisbury Museum, is a purpose-built museum founded in 1864 by W Blackmore. Designed by John Harding and opened in September 1869, it houses a collection of artifacts illustrating the "Stone age of different countries." The building is constructed of brick with stone dressings, exhibiting a Gothic style. It is a rectangular hall featuring two large gabled windows with mullioned transomed lancet lights, and a central gabled porch. The roof is slated with saddlestones to the gable ends and cresting tiles to the ridge. The brickwork is laid in a simple polychrome grid pattern. Inside, the museum features a fine hammer beam roof and original, painted and gilt, battlemented showcases along the walls. The floor is laid with Minton encaustic tiles. The roof and wall decoration was executed by Harland and Fisher, a London firm based in Southampton Row, who were responsible for major decorative schemes including work at the South Kensington Museum. The museum has remained virtually unaltered since its construction.