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Wells Cathedral School is an independent co-educational boarding and day school for 2–18 year olds located in Wells, Somerset, England, which provides an all-round education alongside world-class Specialist Music and Chorister training. The whole School comprises Pre-Prep, Prep School, and Senior School, which includes a Sixth Form.
Numbers 1 to 13. The Close owes its origins to a grant of land and buildings by Walter de Hulle, a canon of Wells Cathedral, for the purpose of accommodating chantry priests; [9] however, the land is likely to have been used for a long period before the construction of the close, as prehistoric flint flakes and Romano-British pottery shards were recovered from the garden of number four during ...
Wells Cathedral School, which was established to educate these choirboys, dates its foundation to this point. [21] There is, however, some controversy over this. Following the Norman Conquest, John de Villula moved the seat of the bishop from Wells to Bath in 1090. [22] The church at Wells, no longer a cathedral, had a college of secular clergy ...
Rebuilt in the 15th century for Archdeacon Holes, it was still used as a house in 1555 when Canon Polydore Vergil surrendered it to the Crown. In the late 18th century it became a brewery, but was extensively restored 1886. It is now a Grade II* Listed Building and is the Music School and Concert Hall of the Wells Cathedral School. [10] [11]
Boundary Wall. Construction began around 1210 by Bishop Jocelin of Wells but principally dates from 1230. [1] Bishop Jocelin continued the cathedral building campaign begun by Bishop Reginald Fitz Jocelin, and was responsible for building the Bishop's Palace, as well as the choristers' school, a grammar school, a hospital for travellers and a chapel within the liberty of the cathedral.
Parts of the Liberty not within its walled precinct consisted of much the present-day site of the Wells Cathedral School, [8] as well as a small area of the city centre including the Town Hall, some surrounding buildings and down to the Bishop's Barn on Silver Street. [2] The Town Hall was originally the site of one of the canon's houses. [9]
Wells (Priory Road) railway station; Wells (Tucker Street) railway station; Wells and Mendip Museum; Wells Cathedral School; Wells East Somerset railway station; Wells Theological College; Wells Town Hall; The Old Deanery, Wells; St John's Priory, Wells
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