Wells Cathedral

20/10/2026

📚 It was a pleasure to welcome art historian and author Dr Elizabeth Goldring to the Wells Cathedral chained library this week, ahead of her speaking event at the Wells Literature Festival this afternoon.

19/10/2026

👀 Take a look at the exciting progress being made on the Grand Organ refurbishment!

Earlier this year, our famous Grand Organ was dismantled and removed from Wells Cathedral, as part of a major refurbishment project by Durham-based organ builders Harrison & Harrison Ltd.

🎹 Richard Wynn-Jones, a member of Friends of Wells Cathedral visited Harrison & Harrison earlier this month to see up close the fantastic and intricate work underway to restore the magnificent instrument.

Further vital fundraising is now underway to ensure completion of this multi-million-pound project. Please consider making a donation through the Friends of Wells Cathedral website: www.wellsfriends.org/grand-organ-appeal

📷: Richard Wynn-Jones

19/10/2026

🎶 Join us on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 October for Evensong performed by The Wingrave Singers.

The Wingrave Singers are a chamber choir that was formed in 1977 in the village of Wingrave in Buckinghamshire. They are looking forward to celebrating their Golden Anniversary next year. The choir specialises in Cathedral Music and has enjoyed visiting many Cathedrals and Abbeys to sing the services during the resident choirs’ holidays. They are looking forward to returning to Wells this October.

📅 Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 October
🕰️ 5:15pm - 6:15pm

🔗 Find out more here:
www.wellscathedral.org.uk/whats-on?event=98900723

18/10/2026

🙏 Today, Wells Cathedral celebrates the Feast of St Luke. We invite you to join us in this prayer:

Almighty God,
you called Luke the physician,
whose praise is in the gospel,
to be an evangelist and physician of the soul:
by the grace of the Spirit
and through the wholesome medicine of the gospel,
give your Church the same love and power to heal;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.

🙏 Make 2026 your year to explore prayer at Wells Cathedral — part of a Year of Prayer with the Diocese of Bath & Wells. To find out more, visit: www.wellscathedral.org.uk/2026-year-of-prayer

📷: Nick James ARPS

17/10/2026

👑 Wells Cathedral has been officially crowned the most beautiful building in the UK, by Time Out UK!

There are so many ways to explore Wells Cathedral, which truly is a thing of beauty from every angle, and we would love to see your photos from your latest visit. 👀

Share them below!

16/10/2026

🧱 Exciting work is well underway for the Vicars' Close Project, a once-in-a-generation opportunity to save the oldest continuously inhabited medieval street in Europe, still used for its original purpose!

Thank you to National Lottery players and The National Lottery Heritage Fund for making this amazing project possible.

Please support this project by donating online HERE: https://app.donorfy.com/form/3JLXB6N8L7/wcvcsvc

15/10/2026

🕯️ Gather with us this Remembrance Sunday as we remember those who have died in war and conflict, give thanks for their sacrifice, and pray for peace.

Our Act of Remembrance forms part of the regular Cathedral Eucharist service, before we process to the Harry Patch Memorial outside the Wells & Mendip Museum to join the wider community in remembrance.

📅 8 November 2026
🕰️ 10.30am

🔗 For details of all upcoming Remembrance services and events, please visit:
www.wellscathedral.org.uk/whats-on/remembrance26

15/10/2026

🔥 Great to hear Nerys Watts, Chief Operating Officer for Wells Cathedral, on BBC Somerset this morning, discussing the wonderful news that Wells Cathedral has been crowned the most beautiful building in the UK!

📻 Tune in at the 1:36:46 mark to listen to the interview now on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0032g2z

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14/10/2026

Last Friday, Wells Cathedral was delighted to welcome an exceptional group of scholars and Bible translators for 'Opening the Word: Tyndale, Translation, and Transformation' marking 500 years since the first printing of William Tyndale’s English New Testament.

It was a fascinating day of talks and discussion, exploring the history of Tyndale’s work, the complexities of translating biblical languages, and the ways in which the Bible continues to be translated and made accessible to new generations.

Our speakers brought a remarkable breadth of knowledge and perspective, opening our eyes to the scholarship, thought and care involved in translating the Bible. We were reminded, too, of the risks Tyndale took in making Scripture available in English, and of the enduring significance of his work.

We are enormously grateful to Mr Andrew Hope, The Revd Professor Hugh Houghton, Dr Iona Hine, The Revd Professor John Barton FBA, The Red Professor John Goldingay and The Revd Dr Sharon Moughtin for sharing their expertise and making the day such a rich and thought-provoking occasion.

Five hundred years on, we give thanks for Tyndale’s legacy and for all those who continue his work, helping people encounter the Bible in their own language.

13/10/2026

🙌 Wells Cathedral is officially the most beautiful building in the UK! ⛪️

'Time Out UK' has crowned Wells Cathedral as the "number one most beautiful building in the UK", highlighting the famous scissor arch as "a thing of beauty."

They also emphasised the "glowing 14th-century stained glass" and Wells Cathedral's "richly coloured astronomical clock" and "intricate" ceiling murals. 🙌

www.timeout.com/uk/news/ancient-wells-cathedral-officially-most-beautiful-building-uk-100926

Built in the 1300s, this place’s most stunning feature looks centuries ahead of its time.