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Excerpt from The Cathedral Church of Wells: A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See
History of the Cathedral Church of Wells, a little book which has since been a model for all works of the kind, and of which one can still say that no one can understand all that is contained in the word cathedral unless he has read it. Yet since that book was written much fresh material has been discovered, and the theories then held as to the building of the cathedral have been in great measure disproved. To Canon C. M. Church, in his Chapters in the Early History of Wells, and his papers read before the Somerset Society, we are indebted for most valuable statements of the new historical discoveries, and to his untiring kindness I am myself beholden to a greater extent than I can express.
Wells so abounds in interesting detail, that the exigencies of space have 'made it necessary to curtail the last chapter, which contains the history of the diocese; a good deal of interesting matter has thus been cut from my original ms. Of this chapter, and many bishops have been dismissed more summarily than they deserve. The need of dealing properly with the cathedral itself must be my apology for the baldness of this last chapter as it now stands. Those who desire a further acquaintance with the history of the diocese cannot do better than consult Mr Hunt's Bath and Wells, in the excellent Diocesan Histories series of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.
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