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Title: Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells
A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See

Author: Percy Dearmer

Release Date: May 7, 2010 [EBook #32280]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Wells Cathedral From St. Andrews Spring.]

THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF

WELLS

A DESCRIPTION OF ITS FABRIC
AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE
EPISCOPAL SEE

BY THE
REV. PERCY DEARMER, M.A.

[Illustration: Arms of the See]

WITH FORTY-SIX ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON GEORGE BELL & SONS 1899

_First Published October 1898_
_Second Edition revised October 1899_

W.H. WHITE AND CO. LTD.

RIVERSIDE PRESS, EDINBURGH

GENERAL PREFACE

This series of monographs has been planned to supply visitors to the
great English Cathedrals with accurate and well illustrated
guide-books at a popular price. The aim of each writer has been to
produce a work compiled with sufficient knowledge and scholarship to
be of value to the student of Archaeology and History, and yet not too
technical in language for the use of an ordinary visitor or tourist.

To specify all the authorities which have been made use of in each
case would be difficult and tedious in this place. But amongst the
general sources of information which have been almost invariably found
useful are:--(1) the great county histories, the value of which,
especially in questions of genealogy and local records, is generally
recognised; (2) the numerous papers by experts which appear from time
to time in the Transactions of the Antiquarian and Archaeological
Societies; (3) the important documents made accessible in the series
issued by the Master of the Rolls; (4) the well-known works of Britton
and Willis on the English Cathedrals