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The Bishop's Barn in Silver Street, Wells, Somerset, England, was built as a tithe barn in the 15th century. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building, [1] and scheduled as an ancient monument. [2] It was built of local stone roughly squared, with Doulting ashlar dressings and a Westmorland slate roof. [1]
An 1889 patent by contractor John Talcott Wells of Garbutt, New York for his Wells Truss System described a hybrid structure with the gambrel-roof form on the outside but Gothic-arches on the inside creating a completely unobstructed interior. Over 200 such barns were built in 1886-1942 by Wells and his sons, mostly in Western New York. This ...
It is constructed of small to medium-sized field cobbles and is one of seven surviving cobblestone buildings in the town of Wheatland. Also on the expansive property are a pair of Wells truss barns, 19th century combination corn crib / pig sty, and small 19th century smokehouse. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...
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A fact from Gothic-arch barn appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 April 2018 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that an entire Gothic-arch barn (example pictured) could be ordered from the Sears & Roebuck catalog? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2018 ...
In Wells these are clustered around the 10th-century Cathedral Church of St Andrew, better known as Wells Cathedral, and the 13th-century Bishop's Palace. [4] Glastonbury is the site of the Abbey , where construction started in the 7th century, [ 5 ] and its associated buildings.
The Wells County Fairgrounds in Fessenden, North Dakota was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. The listing included 18 contributing buildings and one other contributing object on 35 acres (14 ha). [1] It includes a horse barn and many other individual features. [2]
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.