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| Location | Wells, England, United Kingdom map | |||||||||
| Date | 1180 to 1425 timeline | |||||||||
| Building Type | large church, cathedral | |||||||||
| Construction System | bearing masonry | |||||||||
| Climate | temperate | |||||||||
| Style | English Gothic | |||||||||
| Notes | Playful, powerful crossing piers inside encompass pointed arches. Attached courtyard. | |||||||||
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| Discussion | Wells Cathedral Commentary
"Begun between 1183 and 1192, the construction of Wells Cathedral was completed in 1260 with the nave, the north porch and the west front. It has strongly marked English characteristics, such as the stress on horizontal lines. From this point of view, the west front is typical: it unfolds impressively in width, punctuated by six buttresses which are obscured in the luxurious sculpture." — John Julius Norwich. The World Atlas of Architecture. p220. "Among the principal works of the Decorated Style is the new choir of Wells Cathedral. Although the three-part elevation of the original Early English choir is retained, so much is new that any connection with the past is almost imperceptible. The effect of energetic fibrous bundles is realized at Wells with more articulate forms. The vault, which springs from a series of Purbeck marble shafts, forms a netlike pattern, accentuated by intricate boxes of blind Curvilinear tracery. — Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. p253. | |||||||||
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Sources on Wells Cathedral
Werner Blaser and Monica Stucky. Drawings of Great Buildings. Boston: Birkhauser Verlag, 1983. ISBN 3-7643-1522-9. LC 83-15831. NA2706.U6D72 1983. longitudinal section drawing of two bays showing nave and aisles in elevation, p89. transverse section drawing showing nave and aisles, p89. plan drawing, p89. — Available at Amazon.com Frank Hoar. An Introduction to English Architecture. London: Evans Brothers Limited, 1963. NA961.H6. axonometric section drawing, p35. Michael Raeburn. Architecture of the Western World. Rizzoli International Publications, 1980. cutaway drawing of cathedral, p110-111. Dennis Sharp, ed. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture. New York: Whitney Library of Design, an imprint of Watson-Guptil Publications, 1991. ISBN 0-8230-2539-X. interior photo, p191. Paul Zucker. Town and Square: From the Agora to the Village Green. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959. LC 59-11183. NA9070.Z8. site plan drawing, plate 20. Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com
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Links on Wells Cathedral
City of Wells — Location map, events info, etc. Wells Cathedral — Informative page with history and images. Wells Cathedral — The cathedral's own official site. Visit to Wells — Personal page with several pics.
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