To many other writers on the Cathedral Church of Wells, acknowledgments and references will be found scattered throughout the present volume. I must also express my thanks to Mr Philips, and Messrs Dawkes & Partridge of Wells, for permission to reproduce their photographs, and to Mr W. Heywood and Mr H.P. Clifford for their drawings.

P.D.

CONTENTS

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[CHAPTER I.—History of the Church]3
[CHAPTER II.—Exterior]20
[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 the South-East]55
[Cloister]58
[Library]63
[Museum]64
[Vicar's Close]66
[Bishop's Palace, Great Hall, Barn]67
[Deanery, Archdeaconry, etc., St. Cuthbert's]70
[CHAPTER III.—Interior]73
[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. Calixtus, St. David, Holy Cross]98
[Clock]105
[Inverted Arches]107
[Tower, Screen, Organ]110
[Choir]113
[Misericords, Glass]120
[Choir Aisles, Monuments]123
[Eastern Transepts, Monuments]124
[Procession Path]128
[Glass in Choir Aisles and Chapels]130
[Lady Chapel, Glass]133
[Chapter-House Staircase]134
[Chapter-House]137
[Undercroft]141
[CHAPTER IV.—History of the Diocese and Foundation]147

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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[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 Nave]19
[West Front—Bishop of Aethelhelm]22
[The West Front]23
[Ornaments in the West Front]28, [29]
[West Front—Christina]31
[The Central Tower from the South-East]45
[The North Porch]49
[The Bishop's Eye]53
[Doorway, South-East of Cloister]58
[East Walk of Cloister]59
[The Chain Gate, Entrance to Close, 1824]65
[The Bishop's Palace]68
[The Nave]75
[A Capital—The Fruit-stealer's Punishment]79
[A Capital—Toothache]81
Specimens of Capitals[82], [83], [84], [148], [149]
[View across Nave, showing Sugar's and Bubwith's Chapels]85
[Sugar's Chapel—The Lectern and Pulpit]88
[Section of North Transept, and Elevation of South Transept]90
[Capitals in Transept]92
[The South Transept, from North Side of Nave]93
[The Font]95
[The Annunciation—Husse's Tomb]101
[Priest in Surplice—Husse's Tomb]102
[The East End in 1823]103
[The Inverted Arches]109
[Choir, looking West]111
[Choir, looking East]115
[Procession Path and Lady Chapel]129
[Steps Of Chapter-house Vestibule And Passage Over Chain Gate]135
[Chapter-House—Doorway]138
[Chapter-House—Interior]139
[Chapter-House—Vault]141
[Chapter-House—Undercroft]142, [143]
[Section of Chapter-House]145
[PLAN]160