The Great West Front,
Wells Cathedral.
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The Great East Window was restored to a semblance of its original appearance by Thomas Willement in 1845. The other windows have complete Canopies, but the pictorial sections are fragmented.[1]
The East Window of the Choir is a broad, Seven-Light Window dating from 1340 to 1345. It depicts the Tree of Jesse (the genealogy of Christ) and demonstrates the use of Silver Staining, a new technique that allowed the artist to paint details on the glass in Yellow, as well as Black.[121]
Stained-Glass Windows,
The Lady Chapel, Wells Cathedral.
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The combination of Yellow and Green glass and the application of the Bright Yellow stain gives the window its popular name, the “Golden Window”.[113] It is flanked by two windows each side in the Clerestory, with large figures of Saints, also dated to 1340 – 1345.[122] In 2010, a major conservation programme was undertaken on the Jesse Tree window.[68]
The panels in the Chapel of Saint Katherine are attributed to Arnold of Nijmegen and date from about 1520.[1] They were acquired from the destroyed Church of Saint-Jean, Rouen,[119] with the last panel having been purchased in 1953.[1]
The large triple Lancet to the Nave’s West End was glazed at the expense of Dean Creighton at a cost of £140 in 1664 [Editor: That would be £24,000, today]. It was repaired in 1813, and the Central light was largely replaced to a design by Archibald Keightley Nicholson between 1925 and 1931.
Stained-Glass Window, Wells Cathedral.
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The greater part of the Stone Carving of Wells Cathedral comprises Foliate Capitals in the Stiff-Leaf Style. They are found ornamenting the Piers of the Nave, Choir and Transepts.
Here, the carving of the foliage is varied and vigorous, the springing Leaves and deep undercuts casting shadows that contrast with the surface of the Piers.[123]
In the Transepts and towards the Crossing in the Nave, the Capitals have many small figurative carvings among the Leaves. These include a man with toothache and a series of four scenes depicting the “Wages of Sin” in a narrative of fruit-stealers, who creep into an orchard and are then beaten by the farmer.
Misericord, Wells Cathedral.
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