Bubwith Almshouses, Wells
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Bubwith Almshouses, Wells
Image: © Derek Harper Taken: 8 Mar 2010
See from St Cuthbert Street with the base of Image on the right. Founded in the early C15, the almshouses were rebuilt in 1884 http://webapp1.somerset.gov.uk/her/details.asp?prn=24797 . In front of the almshouses is what Pevsner describes as a "curious sedilia-like feature: four seats separated and flanked by colonettes. Above, four little gabled niches".
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Image Location
Latitude
51.208603
Longitude
-2.651002