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Identifier: wessex00hollrich (find matches)
Title: Wessex
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Holland, Clive, 1866- Tyndale, Walter, 1855-1943
Subjects: Dorset (England) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Adam & Charles Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ntury, which is probably the work of BishopBubwith. It was in this building that Polydore Vergil,who was the tool and confidant of Wolsey, is said tohave written his history. In the middle of the sixteenthcentury he went to reside abroad, after having heldthe archdeaconry for a period of more than fortyyears ; it was then that he alienated the house, whichfrom that time has continued severed from the church. The vicars close on the north-eastern side of thecathedral is a long, narrow court of great picturesque-ness, possessing a chapel and library at the northernend, and an entrance gate with a common hall aboveit at the south end, with twenty-one houses rangedalong the two sides. The houses, although they havebeen modernised, are probably substantially the workof Bishop Ralph of Shrewsbury, erected in the last yearsof the first half of the fourteenth century. On the 162 THE VICARS CLOSE, WELLSLif£s Little Ironies, Tragedy of Two Ambitions (lodgings of Halborough) 1 » > > » I
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The Vicars Close, Wells mantelpiece of the hall, over the gateway, is carved aninscription asking for the prayers of the faithful forRichard Pomeroy, who built the eastern end. Thisclose was, in fact, a college, each member of which hada small house of two rooms one over the other, witha staircase and small chamber at the back, instead ofrooms on a common staircase. One of those dwellingswas restored to its original state by J. H. Parker ofOxford, who also completely repaired and decoratedone of the houses of the two principal canons, situatedon the north-western end of the wall, which hadformerly been used as a brew-house, and had beenallowed to fall into almost complete dilapidation.Both of these houses are not only interesting to thestudent, but must be so to all who would in any wayrealise the life and the architecture of mediaeval times.Unfortunately, most of the canons houses have beeneither rebuilt or very much spoiled by modern alter-ations. But one or two still retain some of

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  • bookauthor:Holland__Clive__1866_
  • bookauthor:Tyndale__Walter__1855_1943
  • booksubject:Dorset__England_____Description_and_travel
  • bookpublisher:London___Adam___Charles_Black
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  • booksponsor:MSN
  • bookleafnumber:320
  • bookcollection:cdl
  • bookcollection:americana
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