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Postcard 1914 Wells Cathedral The Choir Interior Somerset Real Photo RPPC
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Postcard 1914 Wells Cathedral The Choir Interior Somerset Real Photo RPPC

Wells, Somerset, England, United Kingdom1914RPPCGood

Soaring lancets of the Early English Gothic choir at Wells Cathedral fill this September 1914 real-photo postcard with an almost otherworldly luminosity — the great east window's tracery dissolving into pale light above ranks of choir stalls, the bishop's throne just visible beyond the rood screen, all captured with the sharp tonal precision of a contact-print photograph made when Britain had just entered the Great War. Wells Cathedral's choir, dating from the 13th century, is among the finest Gothic interiors in England; the intimate human scale of its 13th-century stalls and the theatrical depth of the east window make it a perennial subject for architectural photographers. The pencilled date "16th Sept 1914" on the reverse — written just weeks after the outbreak of war — gives this quiet, sacred image a poignant historical resonance. Published printed in England, postage rates shown as Inland ½d / Foreign 1d confirm the 1910–1918 window.

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