A Welsh town with less than 1000 inhabitants is located at the foot of Mendip Mountain in Somerset, on the way to Cornwall via Bristol. Most medieval buildings are preserved in this city: ancient porches, ancient inns and many religious clubs with a long history. In the middle is the Welsh Cathedral and the Bishop's Palace.
Foreigners have settled here since ancient times. /kloc-Archaeological excavations in the 0/9th and 20th centuries found tools of the Stone Age, pottery of ancient Rome and graves of early Christians. Since the early Saxon era, there have been many new archaeological discoveries, including a striking set of friedland silver coins.
During Anglo-Saxon period, England was divided into several small kingdoms ravaged by war. At that time, the city of Wales belonged to the Wesakes. The earliest part of the ruins of Welsh Cathedral can be traced back to 764 AD, and it was probably built at the order of the local rulers. It can be inferred from the chronicles and archaeological excavations that the grand scale of this building complex is shocking. The first part of the church was built in the cloister that we can see today. Obviously, the existing Welsh Cathedral and the parts to be further excavated were built under careful planning.
The early cathedrals were dedicated to San Andreas. Andrew was a fisherman in Bethsaida, Galilee. Like his brother Simon Peter, he was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus. Gizzo (106 1 ~ 1088) was the last Saxon bishop. After him, the power center of this parish was once transferred to the neighboring city of Bath, and Wales was declining.
The brand-new Welsh Cathedral that we can see today was actually built more than a century after the Norman Conquest. Later, the original Saxon building was demolished and many materials were used for reconstruction. This reconstruction is the first appointment of Reginald, a church force with Norman descent.
What remains from the abandoned Saxon church are: the name of the apostle St. Andre, a beautifully carved holy basin decorated with Norman-style columns on the side, and the remains of Saxon bishops, including Bishop Gizzo, who moved from the old site and was reburied.
Although the main part of this building complex began in the 12 and 13 centuries, its tower part was completed two centuries later. Among the bishops in charge of construction, jocelyn, John Zhuokensford, Ralph and Harwell of Shrewsbury played the most important role. Bei Jing is undoubtedly the most outstanding bishop in Wales. He is a highly educated man with strong diplomatic skills. He was the mentor of henry vii, the first Tudor king, and later served as a minister. He supervised many colleges in Oxford and Cambridge and made many arrangements for the construction of Weltu.
Most of the architects of that era were unknown, while Welsh architects were once very famous. Among them are Thomas and William Winford of Whitney, who enjoys a high reputation for building many historical sites of English churches.
Winford used the popular English style to decorate the interior of the church, and created amazing works of art, such as unique bell tower vault, ornate stigma and powerful three-arch arcade. Like many English cathedrals, the Church of Wales also includes Notre Dame de Paris, which was built as early as 1326. A flight of stairs leads to the beautifully decorated priest's room, which is considered as the peak of Gothic art and represents the highest level of similar buildings.
The indoor part of the Welsh Cathedral is beautiful, but its most powerful and precious part is outdoors, which is the west facade of the church completed in 1239. This is an early British building with many details, with 297 statues lined up on it, including 152 life-size statues.
A building of this size can be called unique in Britain and abroad. Not only that, we must also imagine that these statues were originally painted with bright red, blue and gold pictures.
Also worthy of a special book is the astronomical clock placed in the cloister in the north of the cathedral. Bishop Ralph came to Wales on 1392 and ordered a new astronomical clock to be built in Wales Cathedral according to the original astronomical clock in Charlesbury Cathedral. It is easy to see that Ralph's watchmaker came with him. The dial and hands of the clock show the Ptolemaic planetary system recognized by people at that time-the earth is at the center of the universe, and the sun, moon and stars all revolve around the earth. This astronomical clock will ring every quarter of an hour, and there will be medieval warriors riding horses and fighting with spears on it. This type of clock was very popular throughout the middle and late Middle Ages and can be found from Prague to Roskill.