_Wells Cathedral Church_, its general effect as compared with other churches, 5; always a church of secular canons, 6, 8; founded as a collegiate church by Ine, 15; becomes cathedral under Eadward the Elder, 16; analogy of Ripon and Manchester, _ib._; character of the oldest building, 24; tombs of the early bishops, 26; works of Bishop Robert in, 66; long retention of the old English church, 66-70; consecrated by Robert, 67; character of his building, 68, 69; beginning of the works of Jocelin, 71; lectures of Professor Willis on, 72, 73; extent of the work of Jocelin, 74; two styles of Early Gothic in, 74-76; date of the west front, 76; fall of the vault and consequent repairs, 76-77; its arrangement and appearance under Jocelin, 78-70; breaks and stoppages in the nave, 79, 80; its condition at the end of the thirteenth century, 98-100; gradual reconstruction of its eastern portions, 103-114; addition of the Lady chapel, 109; changes in the choir and presbytery, 100-112; its completion in the fourteenth century, 114; raising of the towers, 115-123; dangerous state of the central tower, 118; the danger remedied by props, 119-121; finishing of the western towers, 122; position of Wells among English churches, 124, 136; essentially a second class church, 124; criticism on the west front, 125-128; excessive smallness of its west doors, 126; lack of finish to the Western towers, 129; character and special beauty of the east end, 130-132; marked horizontal lines in the nave, 132, 133; treatment of the Arcades, 133, 134; little damage suffered by, 135; excellence of the stone, 135; its connexion with the surrounding buildings, 136; the church and its appurtenances, completed in the fifteenth century, 145; modern changes in, 152; objectionable arrangements in, 153-156; necessity of reform, 157-161; Henry the Third's grants to, 172; fragments of the older east end, 177; its probable form, _ib._ _Wells, Historian of_, known as the _Canon of Wells_, quoted, 28, 47. _Wells, Palace of_, built by John de Villulâ, 37, 166; its original position, 38; present building built by Jocelin, 76; its style, 76, 81; great hall added by Robert Burnell, 108, 178; moat and wall added by Ralph of Shrewsbury, 137, 182; alienated to Edward Duke of Somerset, and recovered, 149, 186; undercroft in, 176; the hall dismantled by Sir John Gates, 177.