VICARS CLOSE.

 It was a lovely day so we got on the bus outside the camp site and went to Well’s to see the cathedral and Vicars' Close which In 1348, Bishop Ralph of Shrewbury founded a college so that the Vicars Choral, the singing men of the choir, could live together communally. He provided a hall for meals and each of the 42 vicars with his own small house. These were built on two sides of a quadrangle, with the hall at one end and later, a chapel enclosing the other end. In the 15th century, the houses were given front gardens and the Chain Gate was built to provide a passage from the hall into the cathedral. Vicars’ Close, as the street came to be known, is the only completely medieval street in England. After we seen the Close and the Cathedrel we walked round the market and back to the motor-home.