Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells: A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal SeeDearmer, Percy
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Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells: A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See
Dearmer, Percy
Wells Cathedral
growing out of each side; 45, a man in tunic and hood, lying on
his side and clasping his hands; 46, a man in girded tunic, with
his head downwards, upholding the seat with his back and left
hand; 47, head of a lady with hair in a caul on each side,
covered with a veil confined by an ornate fillet; 48, a
gentle-looking lion; 49, a bat displayed; 50, head of an angel,
with amice round neck and expanded wings; 51, a lion; 52, two
doves about to drink from a ewer standing in a basin
(unfinished); 53, a squirrel with a collar round his neck, trying
to escape from a monkey who holds him by a cord; 54, a
wood-pigeon feeding; 55, a man riding on a lion, to whose
buttocks he is applying a whip; 56, a boar and a cat with cloven
feet, walking in opposite directions; 57, an eagle displayed
(unfinished); 58, head and shoulders of a man who upholds the
seat with his hands; 59, a rabbit regardant; 60, a two-legged
beast regarding its tail, which is formed of three oak-leaves on
one stem. _In the Library._--61, a man in hood and loose tunic,
kneeling on the ground and thrusting a spear down the throat of a
dragon; 62, a boy in gown, with long, wavy hair, lying on his
side and drawing a thorn out of his left foot (of coarse late
seventeenth-century work); 63, a dove or pigeon feeding her
young; 64, a sorrowful-looking king sitting cross-legged on a
cushion between two rampant griffins, who are secured by straps
buckled round their necks.
GLASS IN THE CHOIR.--Over the high altar is a superb specimen of the
Jesse window. It is so intricate, that at first nothing can be
distinguished in the glow of jewelled colour but the twining branches
of the vine, and a little time is needed to enter into the spirit of a
window that is all the more enduring for not being very obvious. The
following excellent description by Canon Church (in a sermon preached
in the cathedral on May Day 1890) will make the legend easy to
decipher:--
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