Wells, St Cuthbert's Church 1890
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THIS is the third church to be built on the site. The first was a 9th-century wooden Saxon church. The second was a 12th-century Norman church - the shaft of a Norman piscina remains in the Lady Chapel - and the third church, built in the 13th cen- tury in Early English style, was restored in the 15th century. The two side chapels each have a medieval reredos, which were hidden behind plain walls from the time of the Reformation until they were re-dis- covered in 1848. The skill of the medieval craftsmen is still discernible, although iconoclasts destroyed the carvings and plastered over them. The Tree of Jesse, which formed the reredos of the chapel in the south transept, was erected in 1470. The figure of Jesse at the base can still be distinguished, and some of the carvings survived. The niches once contained painted statues surmounted by a statue of Christ.
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