caption: Exterior view begun c. 1230 Photo Cathedral, Wells The architecture of the cathedral presents a harmonious whole which is entirely Gothic and mostly in a single style, the Early English Gothic of the late 12th and early 13th centuries. The picture shows the west front (30m high, 45m wide) of the Wells Cathedral. It is wider than the nave behind it, it is a screen for sculpture, and the single entrance portal is quite insignificant. The exterior has an Early English façade displaying more than three hundred sculpted figures. Originally all these façades would have been brightly colored, the figures painted naturalistically and the background in vivid reds and blues.
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