On our visit to the Bishop’s Palace I particularly enjoyed the temporary exhibition entitled ‘The Ornate & The Beautiful‘. The exhibition displays the extraordinary craftsmanship of the textile industry from the 14th century to the present day and includes some of the most beautiful and rare vestments and ecclesiastical textiles from around the country. The [...]
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The Ornate & The Beautiful
4 Comments CherryPie on Aug 13th 2016
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Inside the Bishop’s Palace
The Bishop’s Palace and accompanying Bishops House at Wells in the English county of Somerset, is adjacent to Wells Cathedral and has been the home of the Bishops of the Diocese of Bath and Wells for 800 years. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.
Building of the palace started around 1210 by Bishops Jocelin of Wells and Reginald [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Aug 12th 2016
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The Bishop’s Chapel
The Bishop’s Chapel adjoins the Bishop’s Palace:
Bishop Burnell’s chapel, built between 1275 and 1292, is filled with light by tall windows in all four walls. Here the medieval bishops’ households met for formal prayer, led by their own chaplains and priests.
12 Comments CherryPie on Aug 11th 2016
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Anyone for Croquet?
On our first day in Wells we came across the quintessentially English scene on the lawn in front of the Bishop’s Palace.
6 Comments CherryPie on Aug 10th 2016
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Harry Patch Memorial
Henry John “Harry” Patch (17 June 1898 – 25 July 2009), dubbed in his later years “the Last Fighting Tommy“, was a British supercentenarian, briefly the oldest man in Europe and the last surviving combat soldier of the First World War from any country. He is known to have fought in the trenches of the Western Front.[1] Patch was the longest surviving combat [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Aug 9th 2016
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Wanderer, your footsteps are the path, and nothing more; Wanderer, there is no path, the path is made by walking, by walking one makes the path and upon glancing back one sees the path that will never be trod again. Wanderer there is no path – only waves upon the sea.
Antonio Machado, Campos de Castilla, [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Aug 7th 2016
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Wells – Day Five
Breakfast was buffet style and lived up to expectations from our previous visit to the White Hart. After breakfast, we loaded the car and made our way to the Salisbury Museum. We had been disappointed on our last visit to find the archaeological section closed for refurbishment and due to reopen just after we returned [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 6th 2016
