Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See

The earlier architecture of Wells Cathedral presents so many puzzles, that the most skilled experts have differed widely both from each other, and, as we know now, from the trut...

"In England," wrote Mr J.H. Parker, in his _Glossary_, "Wells affords the most perfect example of a cathedral with all its parts and appurtenances. It was," he continues, after...

"The Gothic Cathedral," wrote Froude, an author who held no brief for the Gothic period, "is perhaps, on the whole, the most magnificent creation which the mind of man has as ye...

Legend, which in every ancient city is raised to the dignity of an article of faith, places the origin of Wells diocese in the remote past; and the visitor is required to believ...

Wells Cathedral from St. Andrew's Spring _Frontispiece_ Arms of the See _Title_ The Cathedral from the South-East 2 The Cathedral in the Seventeenth Century 15 South Aisle of Na...

Nave, etc. 77 Capitals 79 Glass 84 Bubwith's Chapel 85 Sugar's Chapel 86 Pulpit, Lectern 87 Transepts 89 Capitals 89 Font, Monuments 95 Transepts Chapels--St. Martin, St. Calixt...

West Front 21 Statuary, Central Doorway, the Tiers 30 Western Towers 44 Central Tower 47 North Porch 47 North Transept 51 Walls, Parapet 52 Chain Gate 52 Chapter-House 54 From t...