Wednesday 17th April
14:00 - 15:00
One of our highly skilled and experienced guides will lead you through the training, tools and material used by the carver. You will uncover the legendary West Front and explore its structure and its purpose.
Unearth the internal carvings including the stiff leaf capitals. “Wells is the best place in England to enjoy and study stiff-leaf capitals. Stiff-leaf foliage was an English speciality anyway; capitals of stylized foliage as beautiful as those of Wells do not exist anywhere outside England. They make the crocket capitals of France look dull. Wells presents us with the whole gamut of stiff-leaf.” Pevsner, 1958
Come and marvel at them by joining a Special Interest Tour led by one of our expert guides, who will describe them, their carvers, and the stone from which they were created.