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Title: Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales, descriptive, historical, pictorial
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Bonney, Thomas George, 1833-1923
Subjects: Cathedrals Church architecture Abbeys Church architecture
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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bed in his palace at Wells by the fall of a stack ofchimneys during the great storm of November, 1703. Every side from which the city is approached afPords a picturesque view of thecathedral. Fergusson says of it: Though one of the smallest, it is perhaps, takenaltogether, the most beautiful of English cathedrals. Externally its three well-proportioned towers group so gracefully with the chapter-house, the remains of thevicars close, the ruins of the bisho23s palace, and the tall trees with which it issurrounded, that there is no instance so characteristic of English art, nor an effect sopleasing produced with the same dimensions. The present building dates from thetime of Bishop Joceline of AYells (1206—1242), who pulled down all the previousbuilding from the west end to the middle of the choir, and rebuilt it, dedicating thebuilding anew to St. Andrew in October, 1239. The present nave, three bays ofthe choir, the transept, and the central tower as high as the roof, are generally
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Xh Ow Wh o <: DCQ w h <do W wW oo a: .1 ^5 Wells. ) VA n JO us A JWniTTJCTS. IGO attributed to this bishop, tliouglithere are some indications of aninterruption of tlie work and modi-fication of the orinfinal desi^-n. Thework at Wells cannot be exactlycompared with the Early English tobe seen at Lincoln, Ely, and Salis-bury, because there was evidentlya local school of masons here, whocontinued to work in their own style—which more resembles Normandesign, with considerable ornamentand having mouldings of specialrichness—long after the new ideashad been introduced into England.This receives special illustration inthe very beautiful north or Galileeporch. The building was com2)letedduring the Decorated period, thecrypt of the chapter-house beingassigned to the time of Bishop Bur-nell (1274—1292), and the chapter-house itself to Bishop William dela March (1293—1302). The cen-tral tower was finished in 1321, buthad to be supported with buttressingarches in 1338. The Lady Cha

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