Many people visit the church to view this embroidery.

It measures five metres high and four metres wide.

The commission to the artists stated that the work was "to reflect God’s activity in creation and environment, encompassing the physical and spiritual dimensions of human life, and evoking worship” The choice of the theme was influenced by concern for the planet with its threat of global warming, population explosion, and dissipation of a stable environment. The Christian church is sensitive to the place of humankind in the whole of God's creation and its moral responsibility for the stewardship of natural resources.

The artists invited to study the commission were Angela Dewar and Gisela Banbury who have worked together since 1978 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, as ecclesiastical designers and embroiderers. Their work has been placed in churches of all denominations. They designed and produced, in open competition, a festal altar frontal for Truro Cathedral.

The embroidery is made entirely of silk, with a strong man- made furnishing fabric backing, and is mounted in seven panels on aluminium frames. Appliqué and free machine embroidery techniques have been used, utilizing a variety of threads, some space-dyed. The work was undertaken solely by Angela Dewar and Gisela Banbury over a period of nine months.

The symbolism of the images on the Creation Embroidery provides a constantly developing interpretation for each viewer. The central glow of the setting or rising sun can indicate death and resurrection. The light and warmth of the sun glance on moon and stars, fish and birds, landscape and trees. Human habitation, emerging from dark to light, contains a Salisbury signature. There are the outlines of familiar architecture in the city. Colour changes across the seven panels from a dark blue night to a light blue day.

The viewer, whoever he or she may be, will approach this unique work of embroidery with wonder at its size, the complexity of its craftsmanship, and its compelling colour. The viewer will look for patterns, images, even meaning and interpretation. Each one will find a communication, indicate a response, and make a judgement time and time again. Both the Viewer and the embroidery are set in a place of worship as this search is pursued.