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THE BISHOP’S PALACE, WELLS.
chapel, a curious and interesting little fabric, wliich still remains entire. Those
parts of the plan which are lightly shaded have been pulled down: the darker
parts are yet standing.
Plate II. Bishop’s Palace, Wells.
An external elevation of one portion of the hall is here shewn, with a
section, and an internal elevation of a window. These windows form excellent
examples of the style prevalent in the reign of Edward I., when the simple
lancet light which characterises Salisbury Cathedral, had given place to the more
enriched form of window seen in Westminster Abbey. The curves in the
tracery are simple, but neat, and of pleasing forms; and the mouldings and
slender columns on the inside, are very elegant.
In the lower part of the plate are sections of these mouldings, with their
dimensions and the centres of their curves.
Plate III. Turret in the Bishop’s Palace, Wells.
The south-west turret is here shewn at large, in an elevation and a vertical
section. It contains a closet, which communieated witli the chamber at the
west end of the hall. It has a drain beneath tlie floor, and the roof is groined
with ribbed arches. Above the closet is a staircase ascending from the roof of
the great chamber to the top of the turret, which is ingeniously covered with
stone, and has an opening just large enough to admit of a man’s passing through
it, in order to get on the roof. Some of the ornamental details are given at
large on the right hand of the plate.
Plate IV. A plan of the roof and battlements on the turret, described in
the preceding plate, is here given ; beneath it is a plan of the octagonal closet,
with the ribs and groins of its roof, &c. The sections shew the mouldings of
the string-courses which surround the outsides of these turrets, in two series,
giving them a singular appearance. The four turrets are of the same forms ex-
ternally, and are all entire, but one of them now stands detached from the rest
of the building; the east end, and part of the south side of the hall, having been
recently pulled down for the purpose of giving a more picturesque appearance to
these ruins as seen from the adjoining garden.
Plate V. Window in the Bishop’s Palace, Wells.
This window is one of a series in the upper story of the buildings at the east
end of the court, which appear to have been erected at an earlier period than
THE BISHOP’S PALACE, WELLS.
chapel, a curious and interesting little fabric, wliich still remains entire. Those
parts of the plan which are lightly shaded have been pulled down: the darker
parts are yet standing.
Plate II. Bishop’s Palace, Wells.
An external elevation of one portion of the hall is here shewn, with a
section, and an internal elevation of a window. These windows form excellent
examples of the style prevalent in the reign of Edward I., when the simple
lancet light which characterises Salisbury Cathedral, had given place to the more
enriched form of window seen in Westminster Abbey. The curves in the
tracery are simple, but neat, and of pleasing forms; and the mouldings and
slender columns on the inside, are very elegant.
In the lower part of the plate are sections of these mouldings, with their
dimensions and the centres of their curves.
Plate III. Turret in the Bishop’s Palace, Wells.
The south-west turret is here shewn at large, in an elevation and a vertical
section. It contains a closet, which communieated witli the chamber at the
west end of the hall. It has a drain beneath tlie floor, and the roof is groined
with ribbed arches. Above the closet is a staircase ascending from the roof of
the great chamber to the top of the turret, which is ingeniously covered with
stone, and has an opening just large enough to admit of a man’s passing through
it, in order to get on the roof. Some of the ornamental details are given at
large on the right hand of the plate.
Plate IV. A plan of the roof and battlements on the turret, described in
the preceding plate, is here given ; beneath it is a plan of the octagonal closet,
with the ribs and groins of its roof, &c. The sections shew the mouldings of
the string-courses which surround the outsides of these turrets, in two series,
giving them a singular appearance. The four turrets are of the same forms ex-
ternally, and are all entire, but one of them now stands detached from the rest
of the building; the east end, and part of the south side of the hall, having been
recently pulled down for the purpose of giving a more picturesque appearance to
these ruins as seen from the adjoining garden.
Plate V. Window in the Bishop’s Palace, Wells.
This window is one of a series in the upper story of the buildings at the east
end of the court, which appear to have been erected at an earlier period than