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Wells Cathedral School is an independent co-educational boarding and day school for 2–18 year olds located in Wells, Somerset, England, which provides an all-round education alongside world-class Specialist Music and Chorister training. The whole School comprises Pre-Prep, Prep School, and Senior School, which includes a Sixth Form.
The Music School of Wells Cathedral School. The Blue School, founded in 1641, [78] is a state coeducational comprehensive school and has been awarded Specialist science college status. It has 1,641 students aged 11–18 of both sexes and all ability levels. [79]
In the late 18th century it became a brewery, but was extensively restored 1886. It is now a Grade II* Listed Building and is the Music School and Concert Hall of the Wells Cathedral School. [10] [11] The college acquired the lease of the chapel in Vicars' Close in 1875. [12]
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 ...
Cedars Hall is Wells Cathedral School's performing arts venue located in Wells, Somerset, England.Opened in autumn 2016, it provides the capacity for audiences of 350 in its main recital hall named Eavis Hall after Old Wellensian Michael Eavis, CBE, founder of the Glastonbury Festival.
Numbers 1 to 13. The Close owes its origins to a grant of land and buildings by Walter de Hulle, a canon of Wells Cathedral, for the purpose of accommodating chantry priests; [9] however, the land is likely to have been used for a long period before the construction of the close, as prehistoric flint flakes and Romano-British pottery shards were recovered from the garden of number four during ...
Wells Cathedral School; Wells East Somerset railway station; Wells Theological College; Wells Town Hall; The Old Deanery, Wells; St John's Priory, Wells
Wells St Andrew, or St Andrew Liberty, or derivations thereof, was a liberty, ecclesiastical parish, and later a civil parish, containing Wells Cathedral (which is dedicated to Saint Andrew) and surrounding land, now in the civil parish of Wells, in Somerset, England.