Wells Cathedral (Part One).

The Great West Front,

Wells Cathedral.

Photo: 30 April 2014.

Source: Own work.

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Photo by DAVID ILIFF.

Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.

Author: Diliff

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Wells Cathedral is an Anglican Cathedral in Wells, Somerset, England, Dedicated to Saint Andrew the Apostle.

It is the Seat of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, whose Cathedra it holds as Mother Church of the Diocese of Bath and Wells.

Built as a Roman Catholic Cathedral from around 1175 to replace an earlier Church on the site since 705 A.D., it became an Anglican Cathedral when King Henry VIII split from Rome.

It is moderately-sized for an English Cathedral. Its broad Great West Front and large Central Tower are dominant features.[5]

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It has been called “unquestionably, one of the most beautiful”[6] and “most poetic” of English Cathedrals.[7]

Its Gothic architecture is mostly inspired from the Early-English Style of the Late-12th-Century to Early-13th-Century, lacking the Romanesque work that survives in many other Cathedrals.

Building began about 1175 at the East End with the Choir. The architectural historian John Harvey sees it as Europe’s first truly Gothic structure, breaking the last constraints of Romanesque.[8]

The stonework of its Pointed Arcades and Fluted Piers bears pronounced Mouldings and Carved Capitals in a Foliate, “Stiff-Leaf” Style.[9]

Wells Cathedral’s Great West Door.

Photo: 2 July 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Lamiai

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PART TWO FOLLOWS.