Ilkeston Cam on Holiday
Part 08 - Cathedral Green
w/e 13 September 2026
All of this week's pictures were
taken with a Nikon D3300 camera.
Continuing our walk through Wells we headed for the
Cathedral.
After passing through the Penniless Porch
we walked towards the Cathedral but first decided to look at
the area in front of it known as Cathedral Green.
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One of the first things we noticed was an information board complete
with a slot machine to purchase a street map. This may have been
of use earlier but we were here now and knew our way back to
the car park.
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Turning and with our backs to the Cathedral all the
properties on the left of Cathedral Green were either Grade II
or Grade II* Listed Buildings.
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Opposite them, on the far side of Cathedral Green, are The Georgian
House (Grade II) and The Old Deanery (Grade I) parts of which
date from the twelfth century.
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To the right of The Old Deanery is another Grade II building
which is Wells Museum and to the right of that The Music School
is Grade II*.
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There are more Listed Buildings beyond the Music School and also
a dead end street called Vicar's Close. This is Europe's oldest
residential street dating from the 1300s but the Cathedral Green
of course is dominated by Wells Cathedral.
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The Cathedral is renowned for the carved statues that cover the
West Front of the building.
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Of the original 500 statues of the West Front, over 300 still
remain.
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The medieval figures were originally painted and gilded until
the late nineteenth century but this was removed in what became
known as the Great Scrape.
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We could have spent much longer
in Wells but time was marching on and we soon had to leave to
return to Weston Super Mare. As we returned through Penniless
Porch to the Market Place to start back I noticed a brass plaque
in the pavement and a line of slabs decorated with the five Olympic
rings. The plaque read "This represents the world record
ladies long jump by Mary Bignal Rand, a native of this city,
to win the Gold Medal at the Olympic Games Tokyo 1964. It is
22' 2¼" long and is placed here in admiration of
her achievement. Presented by T W W."
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