ST. CUTHBERT’S, WELLS. 93 
3. Cutbhert’s, Welle. 
BY MR. B. FERREY. 
T. CUTHBERT’S Church is a large and very interest- 
ing building, chiefly of the Third Pointed Period, and 
possessing the usual characteristics of churches in Somer- 
setshire. The nave piers, and some of the windows, are of 
earlier date; and -the weather-mould of the original roof 
is still visible on the east side of the tower, inside the 
church. 
The church consists of a west tower, nave, and aisles, 
with chantry chapels both on the north and south sides. 
Transeptal chapels have also been added on the north and 
south sides, in which the reredos, the drawings of which are 
submitted to the meeting, were discovered. There areporches 
on the north and south sides of the church, each having a 
parvise over. The chancel has aisles ; and the sacristy, on 
the north side, is original. The tower of the church is well 
known as one of the finest examples in Somersetshire. The 
first of some interesting discoveries was made about last 
August in one of the chapels before mentioned, on the 
north side of the nave (dedicated to the Holy Trinity), and 
consisted of a fresco, life size, of our Blessed Saviour, clad 
