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Archive for the tag 'The Bishop’s Palace'
Filed under Holidays, Wells 2016
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
6 Comments CherryPie on May 14th 2017
Filed under Holidays, Wells 2017
Water Supply
For centuries the wells here provided clean water for those living nearby.
This water wheel was installed in the 1800s to power a pump which supplied water to the Palace for domestic use.
However, in the 1870s Bishop Hervey’s children caught typhoid fever. He suspected that contaminated water had caused their illness. He may well have been [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on May 13th 2017
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Wells 2016, Wells 2017
The Well House
In 1451 Bishop Beckynton granted to the town a supply of water from the Wells within his palace gardens. A cistern inside this well house collected water. This ‘head’ connected enough pressure to force a supply through pipes to an outlet in the market place.
Overflow water from the marketplace wellhead ran down a gutter, washing [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on May 11th 2017
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Saint Andrew’s Well
In 705 King Ine if Wessex hear these Wells to Aldhem, his bishop, so that he could build a minster. The Saxon minster lay just south of the present Cathedral. A stream from this well flowed close beside the minster. Water might have been taken from the stream for use in some church ceremonies.
The wells’ [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on May 10th 2017
Filed under Art, Holidays, Wells 2017
The Weight of our Sins
“In this moment, as they stop for breath before staggering on with their burden of the cross, we are given an opening to relate to this group of deserted children.”
Josefina de Vasconcellos, sculptor
The artist represents each child to symbolise a crime against children in the world today: AIDS, drugs, genocide, abuse, landmines, homelessness, infant mortality, [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on May 8th 2017
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Wells 2017
Wells – Day Three
We arranged with our hostess to have breakfast early so that we could attend the Eucharist service on Easter morning in Wells Cathedral. Our hostess was also hoping to attend the service with her husband (who was not normally home for Easter). When we arrived for breakfast we found that in addition to the fruit [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Apr 26th 2017
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Science & Nature, Wells 2016
The Wells
Crossing the wooden boardwalk, you approach the shady and secretive corner of the grounds where St Andrew’s Well rises. There are two or three other wells here, which in summer are thick with wetland plants.*
St. Andrew’s Well
In 705 King Ine of Wessex gave land near the wells to Aldhelm, his Bishop, so that he could [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Aug 27th 2016
