Synopsis
Iconography Of The West Front Of Wells Cathedral, With An Appendix On The Sculptures Of Other Medieval Churches In England by Charles Robert Cockerell. This book surveys the monumental sculptural program on the west front of Wells Cathedral, detailing its nine horizontal tiers of reliefs and statues, including the apostles, saints, bishops, kings, and angels, and explaining their doctrinal, historical, and national significance. It places the Wells front within a broader medieval English context, comparing it with other cathedrals and churches, and discusses the school of English monumental sculpture, its Angl0-Saxon origins, and the role of churchmen in fostering large-scale figural programs. The text is supplemented by extensive appendices that catalog and analyze sculpture at Exeter, Norwich, Lichfield, Worcester, Salisbury, Peterborough, Bath, Beverley, Gloucester, Oxford, and other sites, and by critical discussion on iconography, style, and the social-political uses of monumental sculpture in medieval England. The work is a historical-artistic study of religious imagery in stone and its connection to national identity and law, illuminated by historical sources and biographical anecdotes of the era.
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