Wells Cathedral
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Wells Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Andrew, is a Church of England cathedral in Wells, Somerset, England. It is the seat of the bishop of Bath and Wells and the mother church of the d
West front of Wells Cathedral
Wells Cathedral in the Somerset countryside
The Bishop's Palace built by Ralph of Shrewsbury
Aerial view of the cathedral and the Vicars' Close (lower left of picture)
Vicars' Close, Wells
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Vicars' Close is a dead end street in Wells, Somerset. It is reportedly Europe's oldest residential street with the original buildings still intact. John Julius Norwich called it "that rarest of survi
Wells Cathedral
…cathedral precincts contain the Bishop's Palace and several buildings linked to its medieval chapter of secular canons, including the fifteenth-century Vicars' Close. The earliest record of a church on the present site is a charter of 766. A bishopric was established in 909; however in 1090 the cathedral of the…
Vicars' Close looking towards Wells Cathedral
Numbers 1 to 13
Vicars' hall over gateway leading from Vicars' Close to St Andrew Street
Vicars' Chapel and Library