Wells St Andrew

Wells St Andrew
The Bishop's Eye: the most prominent extant gateway, leading from the Market Place into the walled precinct of the Liberty and the Bishop's Palace;[1] the walls and gates belonged to the Liberty.[2]
Wells St Andrew is located in Somerset
Wells St Andrew
Wells St Andrew
Location within Somerset
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
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51°12′37″N 2°38′31″W / 51.2104°N 2.642°W / 51.2104; -2.642
The Cathedral Green: the Swan Hotel is outside the Liberty but can be seen through a gap made in the perimeter otherwise formed by the buildings surrounding the Green.
One of the wells, dedicated to St Andrew, which give the city its name, located in the gardens of the Bishop's Palace in the centre of the Liberty.

Wells St Andrew, or St Andrew Liberty, or derivations thereof, was a liberty, ecclesiastical parish, and later a civil parish, containing Wells Cathedral (which is dedicated to Saint Andrew) and surrounding land, now in the civil parish of Wells, in Somerset, England.

  1. ^ Bush, Robin (1994). Somerset: The complete guide. Wimborne, Dorset: Dovecote Press. p. 222. ISBN 1-874336-26-1.
  2. ^ Ordnance Survey 1:500 town maps (c. 1886)