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Wells Cathedral School, which was established to educate these choirboys, dates its foundation to this point. [21] There is, however, some controversy over this. Following the Norman Conquest, John de Villula moved the seat of the bishop from Wells to Bath in 1090. [22] The church at Wells, no longer a cathedral, had a college of secular clergy ...
He is first mentioned in 1360 when at work at Windsor Castle as warden of masons' work. He became master mason at Wells Cathedral on 1 February 1365 [3] where he is believed to have designed the South West tower, it was probably here that he met William of Wykeham who was then a provost of the cathedral.
It was founded by Herbert E. Balch in 1893, to display his collection of local artefacts and memorabilia, and further exhibits have been added since. It is run by the Wells Natural History and Archaeological Society and moved from its original site in the Cathedral cloister to its present home in 1932.
Frederick Crowe [9] (later organist of Chichester Cathedral) c.1880; Charles Harry Moody 1894 – 1895 (then acting organist 1895) Frederick William Heck 1896 – 1897 [10] (afterwards organist of Bedminster Parish Church) W. J. Bown [11] Richard John Maddern-Williams 1904 – 1906 (afterwards sub-organist of Norwich Cathedral). Kenneth J ...
William Joy was a colleague of the master mason Thomas Witney, and took over his work at Wells Cathedral in 1329. Joy extended the choir and retrochoir [ 3 ] and designed the choir vault. [ 4 ] Joy built the scissor arches to prevent the central tower from collapse when cracks appeared in the tower after its height was extended in the 14th ...
West front of Norwich Cathedral, remodelled in about 1830. Anthony Salvin (1799–1881) was an English architect, born in Sunderland Bridge, County Durham.He trained under John Paterson of Edinburgh, and moved to London in 1821.
"Scissors" strainer arch arrangement in Wells Cathedral includes an inverted arch at the bottom of the upper opening. A strainer arch (also straining arch [1]) is an internal structural arch built to relieve the inward pressure [2] off the spanned vertical supports (providing a "buttress", thus also called buttressing arches [citation needed]), usually as an afterthought to prevent the ...
A square cloister sited against the flank of the abbey church was built at Inden (816) and the abbey of St. Wandrille at Fontenelle (823–833). At Fulda , a new cloister (819) was sited to the liturgical west of the church "in the Roman manner" [ 12 ] familiar from the forecourt of Old St. Peter's Basilica because it would be closer to the relics.