A WOMAN has been rescued after falling around 30ft and becoming trapped between two turrets during a tour of Wells Cathedral.
She reportedly plunged through a gap in the wall.
A spokesman for Wells Cathedral said the woman was part of a tour group of around a dozen people, who had been accompanied by two guides.
"The emergency services did a fantastic job," he said. "She fell inside the cathedral but they took her out through the top of the roof."
He said he did not have any further information about how the incident happened and an investigation would take place.
A spokesman for South Western Ambulance Service said the woman was trapped in a void between two walls 150ft up inside the bell tower.
She was given pain relief and its hazardous area response team worked with the fire crews to winch her up to a platform for assessment before she was then taken to the roof of the cathedral from where she was winched into the helicopter.
She is suspected to have broken wrists, a broken pelvis and abdominal injuries, the spokesman said.
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