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The Sarum Use was founded on customs for the organisation of music and liturgy, as well as management and finance, employed by the bishop, dean and chapter of Salisbury Catherdral until the Reformation, when its litutgical content was rationalised by Cranner to form the first English Use in the Common Book of Prayer.

The origins and development of these customs reach back to the early Middle Ages, to Celtic practices, as well as to the Anglo-Saxon customs of royal Sherborne, Sarum, Old and New, refined the traditions with Norman influence and the result was a use which became predominant throughout the English Church.

Philip Baxter is a leading expert on early liturgical developments at Salisbury and had a distinguished career in church music at Oxford University and Salisbury Catherdral where he was a vicar choral, deputising for the precentor.