A colouring book and pencils in the room was just too hard to resist
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Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Wells 2016
Stoberry – The Sunken Garden
2 Comments CherryPie on Sep 10th 2016
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Stoberry House
Stoberry House & Garden is set in 26 acres of parkland, with breathtaking views over Wells and the Vale of Avalon; this 6-acre family garden planted sympathetically within its landscape provides a stunning combination of vistas accented with wildlife ponds, water features, sculpture, 1.5 acre walled garden, sunken garden, gazebo, potager, lime walk. Colour and [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Sep 9th 2016
Filed under Books, Faith Foundations, Holidays, Wells 2016
The Chained Library
4 Comments CherryPie on Sep 8th 2016
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The Chapter House
The Canons [Prebendaries] met here daily to discuss Cathedral business, but now meet only on informal occasions. The room is used for exhibitions and concerts etc.
Brass plates over each stall show the place of each man’s ‘prebend’ ie. the farm or estate from which his income was formerly derived.
Windows formerly of stained glass described in [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Sep 7th 2016
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The Jesse Window
The Jesse window is one of the most splendid examples of 14th century stained glass in Europe. This great East Window shows the central story of the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus, surrounded by some earthly ancestors including Jesse, father of King David.*
*from a signboard in front of the window
10 Comments CherryPie on Sep 6th 2016
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Wells Cathedral
West Front
The present Cathedral was begun about 1175 on a new site to the north of an old minster church.
Bishop Reginald de Bohun brought the idea of a revolutionary architectural style from France, and Wells was the first English cathedral to be built entirely in this new Gothic style.
The first building phase took about eighty [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Sep 5th 2016
