The Great West Front,
Wells Cathedral.
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The Decorated Interior is described by Alec Clifton-Taylor as “architecturally, the most beautiful in England”.[92] It is Octagonal, with its Ribbed Vault supported on a Central Column. The Column is surrounded by Shafts of Purbeck Marble, rising to a single continuous rippling Foliate Capital of stylised Oak Leaves and Acorns, quite different in character from the Early-English Stiff-Leaf Foliage.
Chapter House, Wells Cathedral.
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Above the Moulding, spring thirty-two Ribs of strong profile, giving an effect generally likened to “a great Palm Tree”.[92]
The windows are large with Geometric Decorated Tracery that is beginning to show an elongation of form, and Ogees in the Lesser Lights that are characteristic of Flowing Decorated Tracery.
The Tracery Lights still contain ancient Glass.[92] Beneath the windows are fifty-one Stalls, the Canopies of which are enlivened by carvings including many heads carved in a light-hearted manner.[92]
Wells Cathedral contains one of the most substantial collections of Mediæval Stained-Glass in England,[119] despite damage by Parliamentary troops in 1642 and 1643.[120]
Chapter House, Wells Cathedral.
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The oldest surviving Stained-Glass dates from the Late-13th-Century and is in two windows on the West side of the Chapter House staircase. Two windows in the South Choir Aisle are from 1310 to 1320.[1]
The Lady Chapel has five windows, of which four date from 1325 to 1330 and include images of a local Saint, Dunstan.[1][119]
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