Saint John Lateran.
Lenten Station Churches Of Rome.
Available on YouTube
22 February, 2026
The Twenty-Six Mediæval Cathedrals Of England (Part Twenty).
The Norman Crypt,
Rochester Cathedral.
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Source: Own work.
Author: Mattana
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Stained-Glass Window, Rochester Cathedral.
The wording, from Isaiah 60:3-5, says:
“The Gentiles shall come to Thy Light,
And Kings to the brighness of Thy Rising”.
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unless stated otherwise.
Re-Founded as a Religious College in 1422, much of its structure being designed by John Wastell (1485-1506). It is very different in style from the earlier great Churches, sometimes being listed with the thirteen Anglican “Parish-Church Cathedrals”.
Norwich Cathedral.
It also has the finest Norman Tower in England, surmounted by a 15th-Century Spire, and a large Cloister with many more Bosses.[4][10]
Double Aisles give it the widest Nave of any English Cathedral (115 feet); and it also has the richest set of Late-Mediæval Choir Stalls and Misericords in the Country.
Norwich Cathedral.
Built between 1096 and 1536, Norwich Cathedral has a Norman form, retaining the greater part of its original stone structure, which was then Vaulted between 1416 and 1472 in a spectacular manner with hundreds of ornately carved, painted, and gilded Bosses.
It also has the finest Norman Tower in England, surmounted by a 15th-Century Spire, and a large Cloister with many more Bosses.[4][10]
Winchester Cathedral.
Choir and Choir Stalls.
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Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
Dating from 1158 to the Early-16th-Century, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford,was always a small Cathedral and was made smaller by the destruction of much of the Nave in the 16th-Century.
Dating from 1158 to the Early-16th-Century, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford,was always a small Cathedral and was made smaller by the destruction of much of the Nave in the 16th-Century.
The Stone Spire, from 1230, is one of the oldest in England and contributes to Oxford’s tradition as “the City of Dreaming Spires”. Its most unusual feature is the Late-15th-Century Pendant Vault over the Norman Chancel.[4][10]
Peterborough Cathedral.
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Peterborough Cathedral.
Built between 1117 and 1508, Peterborough Cathedral is remarkable as the least altered of the Norman Cathedrals, with only its famous Early-English Great West Front, with its later Porch, and the Perpendicular rebuilding of the Eastern Ambulatory by John Wastell, being in different styles.
Built between 1117 and 1508, Peterborough Cathedral is remarkable as the least altered of the Norman Cathedrals, with only its famous Early-English Great West Front, with its later Porch, and the Perpendicular rebuilding of the Eastern Ambulatory by John Wastell, being in different styles.
Peterborough Cathedral.
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Attribution: Photo by DAVID ILIFF.
Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.
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J. L. Cartwright wrote of the Great West Front that it is “as magnificent an entrance to a sacred building as could well be imagined”.[16]
Quadragesima Sunday. The First Sunday Of Lent. The Lenten Station Is At The Papal Arch-Basilica Of Saint John Lateran. Violet Vestments.
Peterborough Cathedral.
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Quadragesima Sunday.
First Sunday of Lent.
Station at Saint John Lateran.
Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.
Semi-Double.
Privileged Sunday of The First Class.
Violet Vestments.
Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY
Artist: René de Cramer.
“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.
Used with Permission.
English: Papal Arch-Basilica of Saint John Lateran.
Façade by Alessandro Galilei, 1735.
Latin: Archibasilica Sanctissimi Salvatoris et Sanctorum Iohannes Baptistæ et Evangelistæ in Laterano. Omnium
urbis et orbis ecclesiarum mater et caput.
Italiano: Facciata principale della Basilica di San Giovanni
in Laterano, progettata da Alessandro Galilei (1735).
Français: Façade principale de la basilique
Saint-Jean-de-Latran par Alessandro Galilei, 1735.
Photo: 2006/09/07.
Source: Own work.
Author: Jastrow
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Originally, The Forty Days of Lent were counted from this Sunday. The Liturgical gathering of “The Station” takes place today, as it has since the 4th-Century A.D., at Saint John Lateran, which is The Patriarchal Basilica of The Bishops of Rome. At its first Consecration, it was Dedicated to “Saint Saviour”, a name which calls to mind the Redemption accomplished by Our Blessed Lord.
Immediately after His Baptism, Our Lord began to prepare
for His Public Life by a Fast of Forty Days in the mountainous desert which stretches between Jericho and the mountains of Judea. [Tradition tells us that Our Lord took shelter in the grotto on the highest peak of all, known as Mount of the Quarantine.] It was there that He was tempted by Satan, who wished to discover whether The Son of Mary was, in reality, The Son of God (Gospel of The Mass of The Day).
As in the case of Adam, Satan addresses his first attack to
As in the case of Adam, Satan addresses his first attack to
the senses. Our Lord is hungry and the tempter suggests to Him that He should turn stones into bread. In the same way, he tries, during these Forty Days, to make us give up on our Fasting and mortification. This is the concupiscence of the flesh.
Again, the Eleventh Verse: “He hath given His Angels charge over Thee, to keep Thee in all Thy ways,” recurs in Vespers-like refrain during the whole Season. We find the entire Psalm in the Tract, which reminds us of the old custom of singing Psalms during certain parts of The Mass.
Some of its Verses make up the Introit, with its Verse, the Gradual, the Communion and the Offertory, which last was formerly composed, in today’s Mass, of three Verses instead
English: Basilica of Saint John Lateran, Vatican.
With its length of 400 feet, this Basilica ranks
fifteenth among the largest Churches in the World.
Français: Basilique Saint-Jean-de-Latran, Vatican, située à Rome. Avec sa longueur de 121,84 mètres, cette Basilique se classe au 15è rang parmi les plus grandes églises au monde.
Photo: September 2010.
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Author: Tango7174
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The devil had promised our first parent that he should be
as God. Now, he takes Our Lord to the pinnacle of the Temple and tries to induce Him to let Himself be carried by the Angels through the air, amidst the applause of the crowds below. Satan tempts us by Pride, which is opposed to the spirit of Prayer and meditation on God’s Word. This is the Pride of Life.
Finally, just as he had promised Adam a knowledge which,
like that of God Himself, should enable him to know all things, so Satan assures Jesus that he will make Him Ruler over all Created Things, if He will fall at his feet and worship him. In the same way, the devil seeks to attach us to Temporal goods, when we ought, by Alms and Works of Charity, to be doing good to our neighbour. This is the concupiscence of the eyes,
or Avarice.
Since the Sword of the Spirit is the Word of God, Our Lord made use of Psalm XC against Satan, and this is the theme of the whole Mass and is found again and again in The Office of The Day. “His Truth shall cover thee with a shield,” says the Psalmist. This Psalm is, therefore, the ideal Psalm for Lent
as a special time of warfare against the devil.
English: Basilica of Saint John Lateran, Vatican.
The Choir and Apse. The mosaics in the Dome are a
19th-Century rebuilding of Jacopo Torriti’s works,
dating to the 13th-Century.
Français: Basilique Saint-Jean-de-Latran,
située à Rome. Chœur et abside. La mosaïque du
dôme est une réfection du XIXè siècle de l'œuvre de
Jacopo Torriti remontant au XIIIè siècle.
Photo: September 2010.
Source: Own work.
Author: Tango7174
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Again, the Eleventh Verse: “He hath given His Angels charge over Thee, to keep Thee in all Thy ways,” recurs in Vespers-like refrain during the whole Season. We find the entire Psalm in the Tract, which reminds us of the old custom of singing Psalms during certain parts of The Mass.
Some of its Verses make up the Introit, with its Verse, the Gradual, the Communion and the Offertory, which last was formerly composed, in today’s Mass, of three Verses instead
of one, following the order of the threefold temptation as recorded in the Gospel.
Side-by-side with this Psalm, the Epistle, dating from the time of Pope Saint Leo, sounds one of the characteristic notes of Lent. There, Saint Paul borrows a Text of Isaias: “In an accepted time, have I heard thee, and in the Day of Salvation have I helped thee.” “Behold,” says the Apostle, “now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the Day of Salvation” (Epistle and First Nocturn).
Side-by-side with this Psalm, the Epistle, dating from the time of Pope Saint Leo, sounds one of the characteristic notes of Lent. There, Saint Paul borrows a Text of Isaias: “In an accepted time, have I heard thee, and in the Day of Salvation have I helped thee.” “Behold,” says the Apostle, “now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the Day of Salvation” (Epistle and First Nocturn).
Decorated Ceiling,
Basilica of Saint John Lateran.
Photo: March 2010.
Source: Own work.
Author: Grenouille vert
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On this, Saint Leo comments: “Although there is no Season
of the Year which is not rich in Divine Gifts and in which we, by God’s Grace, do not find immediate access to His Mercy; nevertheless, at this time, when the return of the day on
which we are redeemed summons us to fulfil all the duties of Christian piety, the Souls of Christians must be stirred with more zeal for spiritual progress, and possessed of a very great confidence in Almighty God.
In this manner, with pure Souls and bodies, shall we celebrate this Mystery of The Lord’s Passion, sublime beyond all others.
In this manner, with pure Souls and bodies, shall we celebrate this Mystery of The Lord’s Passion, sublime beyond all others.
True, we ought always to be in The Divine Presence, just as much as on the Easter Feast. But, because this spiritual vigour is the possession of only a few, while, on the other hand, the weakness of the flesh leads to any very severe observance being relaxed, and on the other, the varied occupations of this life share and divide our interest, it necessarily happens that the dust of the World soils the hearts, even of Religious themselves.
Cloisters at Saint John Lateran.
Photo: August 2006.
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Author: Kodiak
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This Divine Institution has been planned with great profit to our Salvation, in a manner that the exercises of these Forty Days may help us to regain the Purity of our Souls, making
up, in a way, for the faults of the rest of the Year, by Fasting and pious deeds.
However, we must be careful to give no-one the least cause of complaint or scandal, so that our general behaviour may not be inconsistent with our Fasting and Penance. For it is useless to reduce the nourishment of the body unless the Soul departs from sin" (Second Nocturn).
In this “acceptable time” and in these “Days of Salvation”, let us purify ourselves with The Church (Collect), “in Fastings, in Chastity,” by zeal in hearing and meditating on The Word of God and by Charity unfeigned (Epistle).
Every Parish Priest Celebrates Mass for the people of his Parish.
Mass: Invocábit me.
Creed: Is said.
Preface: For Lent.
However, we must be careful to give no-one the least cause of complaint or scandal, so that our general behaviour may not be inconsistent with our Fasting and Penance. For it is useless to reduce the nourishment of the body unless the Soul departs from sin" (Second Nocturn).
In this “acceptable time” and in these “Days of Salvation”, let us purify ourselves with The Church (Collect), “in Fastings, in Chastity,” by zeal in hearing and meditating on The Word of God and by Charity unfeigned (Epistle).
Every Parish Priest Celebrates Mass for the people of his Parish.
Mass: Invocábit me.
Creed: Is said.
Preface: For Lent.
Our Lady Of The Atonement Cathedral,
Baguio, Philippines.
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Source: Own work.
This File is made available under the
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Wells Cathedral.
Photo: August 2006.
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Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence.
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“Dies Iræ”. The Sequence In A Requiem Mass (Mass For The Dead).
“Dies Iræ”.
The Sequence In A Requiem Mass
(Mass For The Dead).
Available on YouTube
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unless stated otherwise.
“Dies Irae” (“The Day of Wrath”) is a Latin Sequence, attributed to either Thomas of Celano of The Franciscans (1200 – circa 1265) or to Latino Malabranca Orsini (☩ 1294), Lector at The Dominican Studium, at Santa Sabina, Rome, the forerunner of The Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum, in Rome.
The Sequence dates from at least the 13th-Century, though it is possible that it is much older, with some sources ascribing its origin to Saint Gregory the Great (☩ 604 A.D.), Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153), or, Saint Bonaventure (1221–1274).
The Last Judgement.
Artist: Hans Memling (circa 1433 –1494).
Collection: National Museum, Gdansk, Poland.
Source/Photographer: Web Gallery of Art
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It is best known from its use in The Requiem (Mass for The Dead, or, Funeral Mass). An English version is found in various Anglican Communion Service Books.
The first melody set to these words, a Gregorian Chant, is one of the most quoted in musical literature, appearing in the works of many composers. The final couplet “Pie Jesu” has been often re-used as an independent Hymn.
The Chair Of Saint Peter At Antioch. Feast Day, Today, 22 February. White Vestments.
unless otherwise stated.
The Chair of Saint Peter at Antioch.
Feast Day 22 February.
Greater-Double.
White Vestments.
English: Saint Peter as Pope — shown with
the Pallium and the Keys to The Kingdom of Heaven
Magyar: Szent Péter, portréfestménye a szentről,
mint pápáról – a festményen pápai köntösben
a mennyország kulcsaival látható.
Français: Saint Pierre. Elle représente le saint en tant
que Pape - vu ici avec le pallium et les clés du Paradis.
Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640).
Date: 1610-1612.
Current location: Prado, Madrid, Spain.
Source/Photographer: Originally from en.wikipedia
description page is (was) HERE.
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“Tu Es Petrus” [Thou Art Peter].
By Robert Pearsall (1795 - 1856).
The Feast Day of The Chair of Saint Peter at Antioch.
At The Church of Saint Peter, Steubenville,
Ohio, United States of America.
Sung by Schola Cantorum Sanctorum Angelorum
and Students from The Franciscan University.
Conductor: Andrew Leung.
Available on YouTube
“Asperges Me”.
The Feast Day of The Chair of Saint Peter at Antioch.
At the Church of Saint Peter, Steubenville,
Ohio, United States of America.
Sung by Schola Cantorum Sanctorum Angelorum
and Students from The Franciscan University.
Conductor: Andrew Leung.
Cantor: John Brodeur.
Available on YouTube
To honour the dignity of “The Prince” (Introit), to whom Jesus committed The Power of The Keys (Collect), The Church instituted the Feast of “The Chair of Saint Peter”, which is found in the Roman Calendar on this date since 354 A.D.
[The Cathedra (Chair) is the Throne established where the Bishop resides, hence the name Cathedral, given to the Church where the Bishop’s Seat is placed. Metaphorically, it represents the Episcopal authority itself. “The Chair of Saint Peter” means, therefore, a memory of Saint Peter’s Episcopate, and his Primacy as Head of the Whole Church.]
As it often falls in Lent, certain Churches Celebrated it at an earlier date, in January. Hence, the two Feasts of “The Chair
of Saint Peter”, which The Church distinguished by connecting the more ancient Feast [Rome, until the 16th-Century, only Celebrated this Feast and not the other Feast] on 22 February, with “The Chair at Antioch”, and the other Feast, on
18 January, with “The Chair of Rome”. Saint Peter resided, indeed for some time, at Antioch about the years
51 A.D. - 52 A.D.
It is to Saint Peter, who proclaimed that Jesus was “The Christ, Son of the Living God” (Gospel), when all Palestine rejected Him, that The Master commits the Power to bind Satan by closing the Gates of Hell, to Open for us the Gates of Heaven (Gospel). And the Head of The Church teaches us in his first Epistle that it is “by Faith, in the sprinkling of The Blood of Jesus Christ, that The Holy Ghost Sanctifies us and reconciles us to The Father.”
The Commemoration of Saint Paul immediately follows the Collect of the Feast, for the Liturgy does not separate those who have so justly been called “The Two Pillars of The Church”.
Let us today honour the Head of The Church, who continues here below the redeeming work of Jesus.
Mass: Státuit ei Dóminus.
Commemoration: Of Saint Paul.
Commemoration: Of the Feria (with Last Gospel), in Lent.
Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
A Commemoration of Saint Paul immediately follows
the Collects of the Feast, today, for the Liturgy does not separate those who have so justly been called
“The Two Pillars of The Church”.
Artist: René de Cramer.
“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.
Used with Permission.
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It is to Saint Peter, who proclaimed that Jesus was “The Christ, Son of the Living God” (Gospel), when all Palestine rejected Him, that The Master commits the Power to bind Satan by closing the Gates of Hell, to Open for us the Gates of Heaven (Gospel). And the Head of The Church teaches us in his first Epistle that it is “by Faith, in the sprinkling of The Blood of Jesus Christ, that The Holy Ghost Sanctifies us and reconciles us to The Father.”
The Commemoration of Saint Paul immediately follows the Collect of the Feast, for the Liturgy does not separate those who have so justly been called “The Two Pillars of The Church”.
Let us today honour the Head of The Church, who continues here below the redeeming work of Jesus.
Mass: Státuit ei Dóminus.
Commemoration: Of Saint Paul.
Commemoration: Of the Feria (with Last Gospel), in Lent.
Creed: Is said.
Preface: Of the Apostles.
21 February, 2026
“Via Crucis”. The Way Of The Cross. By: Saint Alphonsus Liguori. The Perfect Daily Prayer For Lent.
“Via Crucis”.
The Way Of The Cross.
By: Saint Alphonsus Liguori.
Available on YouTube
The Way Of The Cross. The Fourth Station. The Perfect Undertaking For Lent.
“O, Beloved Wood”.
“O, Blessed Nails”.
“O, Sweet Burden”.
Illustration: PINTEREST
Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.
Indulgences: One Plenary Indulgence each time; another Plenary Indulgence if Holy Communion is received on the same day, or ten times within the month following that exercise.
If it remained unfinished, Ten Years and Ten Quarantines for each Station visited.
(20 October 1931).
Conditions:
1. To visit each Station, unless it is impossible owing to the crowd.
[Pictures of the fourteen several Mysteries are very useful, but are not indispensable. Wooden Crosses, indicating the fourteen Stations of The Cross, are sufficient and are absolutely required.]
2. To meditate, as best one can, on The Passion of The Saviour.
No vocal Prayers are required. The Popes recommend the recitation of a Pater, an Ave, and an Act of Contrition, at each Station (April 1731).
When The Way of The Cross is made in public, a Verse of “The Stabat Mater” may be sung between each Station.
The Fourth Station.
Jesus Is Met By His Blessed Mother.
Response: Because by Thy Holy Cross Thou hast redeemed the world.
Priest.
Still burdened with His Cross, and wounded yet more by His fall, Jesus proceeds on His way. He is met by His Mother. What a meeting must that have been !
What a sword of anguish must have pierced that Mother's bosom ! What must have been the compassion of that Son for His Holy Mother !
Prayer.
O, Jesus ! By the compassion which Thou didst feel for Thy Mother, have compassion on us, and give us a share in her intercession.
O, Mary, most afflicted Mother ! Intercede for us that, through the sufferings of Thy Son, we may be delivered from the wrath to come.
An Act of Contrition.
O, God, we love Thee with our whole hearts, and above all things, and are heartily sorry that we have offended Thee.
May we never offend Thee any more. O, may we love Thee without ceasing, and make it our delight to do in all things Thy Most Holy Will.
Our Father . . .
Hail Mary . . .
Glory Be To The Father . . .
Have mercy on us, O, Lord. Have mercy on us.
Versicle: May the Souls of the Faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
Response: Amen.
While passing from one Station to another, a Verse of the “Stabat Mater” is sung or said.
Versicle:
Quæ moerébat et dolébat,
Pia Mater, dum vidébat,
Nati poenas ínclyti.
Response:
Sancta Mater, istud agas,
Crucifíxi fige plagas,
Cordi meo válide.
Proceed to The Fifth Station.
Response:
Sancta Mater, istud agas,
Crucifíxi fige plagas,
Cordi meo válide.
Proceed to The Fifth Station.
Sant’Agostino. Saint Augustine. Lenten Station Churches Of Rome.
Sant’Agostino.
Saint Augustine.
Lenten Station Churches Of Rome.
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Church of Saint Gallen, Weer, Tyrol, Austria.
Church of Saint Gallen,
Weer, Tyrol, Austria.
Photo: 2025.
Illustration and Text:
Architecture:
Johann Michael Umhauser (1731–1784).
Frescos and Altarpieces:
Franz Anton Zeiller (1716–1794).
Parish of Kolsass/Fiecht Monastery.
History:
Weer, first elevated to the status of a Parish in
1954, was originally a Branch of the Parish of Kolsass and
under the administration of Fiecht Monastery, near Schwaz.
The first Church, belonging to a farm, dates from the
8th-Century A.D. It is assumed that a new building was erected in the 13th-Century. In the last third of the
15th-Century, a larger Late-Gothic Church was erected.
The Master Builder, who long remained unknown,
has now been identified as Michael Umlauf.
Source: [https://baroqueart.museumwnf.org/database_
item.php?id=monument;BAR;at;Mon11;22;en&cp]
Wells Cathedral (Part Thirteen).
The Great West Front,
Wells Cathedral.
Photo: 30 April 2014.
Source: Own work.
Attribution:
Photo by DAVID ILIFF.
Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.
Author: Diliff
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unless stated otherwise.
The Great West Front of Wells Cathedral has the Paired-Tower form, unusual in that the Towers do not indicate the location of the Aisles, but extend well beyond them, screening the dimensions and profile of the building.[6]
The Great West Front rises in three distinct stages, each clearly defined by a horizontal course. This horizontal emphasis is counteracted by six strongly-projecting Buttresses defining the cross-sectional divisions of Nave, Aisles, and Towers, and are highly decorated, each having Canopied Niches containing the largest Statues on the façade.[95]
At the lowest level of the façade is a plain base, contrasting with and stabilising the ornate Arcades that rise above it.[95] The base is penetrated by three doors, which are in stark contrast to the often imposing Portals of French Gothic Cathedrals.
The outer two doors are of domestic proportion and the central door is ornamented only by a central Post, Quatrefoil, and the fine Mouldings of the Arch.[6]
Wells Cathedral.
Many Statues on The Great West Front are lost, but
this group of Saints remains at the back of the North Tower.
Photo: 9 December 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Mattana
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Above the Basement, rise two Storeys, ornamented with Quatrefoils and Niches originally holding about four hundred Statues, with three hundred surviving until the Mid-20th-Century.[6] Since then, some have been restored or replaced, including the ruined figure of Christ in the Gable.[96]
The third stages of the Flanking Towers were both built in the Perpendicular Style of the Late-14th-Century, to the design of William Wynford; that on the North-West was not begun until about 1425.[34] The design maintains the general proportions, and continues the strong projection of the Buttresses.
The finished product has been criticised for its lack of Pinnacles, and it is probable that the Towers were intended to carry Spires, which were never built.[88]
Despite its lack of Spires or Pinnacles, the architectural historian Banister Fletcher describes it as “the highest development in English Gothic of this type of façade.”[97]
The strongly-projecting Buttresses of Wells Cathedral’s
Great West Front have Niches for Statues.
Photo: 27 October 2010.
Source: Own work.
Author: Ad Meskens
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