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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 ...
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.
Lincoln Cathedral had a chapter of secular canons, for whom the earliest polygonal chapter house was built.. The 26 cathedrals described in this article are those of Bristol, Canterbury, Carlisle, Chester, Chichester, Durham, Ely, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Lichfield, Lincoln, Manchester, Norwich, Oxford, Peterborough, Ripon, Rochester, St. Alban's, Salisbury, Southwark, Southwell, Wells ...
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.
The Wells Cathedral clock is an astronomical clock in the north transept of Wells Cathedral, England. The clock is one of the group of famous 14th– to 16th ...
The first cathedral in England to be both planned and built entirely in the Gothic style was Wells Cathedral, begun in 1175. [4] Other features were imported from the Ile-de-France, where the first French Gothic cathedral, Sens Cathedral, had been built (1135–64). [5]
It was through the society and with help of Thomas Jex-Blake, Dean of Wells, that Balch managed to set up the Wells Museum in 1893, displaying his own artefacts in the cathedral's cloister. The museum had grown significantly by 1928 so Balch persuaded William Wyndham to purchase a property for the museum on the cathedral green. [1]
Fan vaulting over the nave at Bath Abbey, England: made from local Bath stone, this is a Victorian restoration (in the 1860s) of the original roof of 1608. A fan vault is a form of vault used in the Gothic style, in which the ribs are all of the same curve and spaced equidistantly, in a manner resembling a fan.