The Project Gutenberg EBook of Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church ofTewkesbury, by H. J. L. J. MasséThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.orgTitle: Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesburywith some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst GloucestershireAuthor: H. J. L. J. MasséRelease Date: August 7, 2007 [EBook #22260]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ABBEY CHURCH OF TEWKESBURY ***Produced by Jeannie Howse, Jonathan Ingram and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.netTranscriber's Note:This e-text contains some less common characters: ~e, ~i, ~o and ~m (tildeover the character).If any of these characters do not display properly, you may have anincompatible browser or unavailable fonts. As a first resort, try changing yourbrowser's default font.Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has been preserved.Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.For a complete list, please see the end of this document.Click on the images to see a larger version.TEWKESBURY ABBEY, FROM THE EAST.Photo. D. Gwynne.ToListTEWKESBURY ABBEY, FROM THE EAST.THE ABBEY CHURCH OFTEWKESBURYWITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THEPRIORY CHURCH OFDEERHURSTGLOUCESTERSHIREBYH.J.L.J. MASSÉ, M.A.Author of "Gloucester ...
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H.J.L.J. MASSÉ, M.A. Aut hor of "Gloucest er Cat hedral" "Mont S. Michel," "Chart res," et c. WITH XLIV Arms of the Abbey ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON GEORGE BELL & SONS 1906 First published, April, 1900. Reprint ed wit h correct ions, 1901, 1906. PREFACE. My heartiest thanks are here expressed to all who have helped me in any way during the compiling of this book—to Sir Charles Isham, of Lamport, for allowing me the use of hisRegistrum Theokusburiæ for several months, and for permission to reproduce two pages from it; to Mr. J.T. Micklethwaite for permission to make use of his paper onSaxon Churches in the Journal of the Archæological Institute, and to the Institute for leave to reproduce the three published blocks of Deerhurst; to Mr. W.H. St. John Hope for several suggestions; to Mr. A.H. Hughes, of Llandudno, Dr. Oscar Clark, and Mr. R.W. Dugdale, of Gloucester, for so liberally supplementing my own store of photographs; to Mr. S. Browett, of Tewkesbury, for the loan of the wood block on page 17; and, lastly, to Mr. W.G. Bannister, the sacristan of the Abbey, who placed his thorough knowledge of the building, its records, and its heraldry, together with the whole of his valuable MS. notes on these points, unreservedly at my disposal. H.J.L.J.M. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I.of the Abbey Church, and Some AccountHistory of the Foundation and Fabric of its Benefactors3 II.The Exterior29 North Porch 30 The Tower 30 The West Front 32 The South Side 34 The Cloisters 34 The Lady Chapel 37 III.The Interior39
The Nave 39 The Roof and its Bosses 42 The Font 43 The Lectern 44 The Pulpit 44 The Screen 45 The Great West Window 46 The Aisles 47 North Aisle and its Windows 47 South Aisle and its Windows 49 North Transept 51 Interior of the Tower 53 St. James' Chapel 55 Early English Lady Chapel 57 St. Margaret's Chapel 58 St. Edmund's Chapel 60 The Clarence Vault 62 St. Faith's Chapel 63 The Vestry 65 South Transept 68 The Choir 71 Altar 74 Sedilia 75 Tiles 76 Windows of the Choir 76 De Clares 77 Despenser Graves 81 The Tombs and Chantries—Warwick Chapel 83 Founder's Chapel 88 The Despenser Monument 90 Trinity Chapel 91 Tombs in the Ambulatory 93 Abbot Wakeman's Tomb 95 Abbot Cheltenham's Tomb 95 Abbot John's Tomb 96 Abbot Alan's Tomb 97 The Organs 97 Specification of the Grove Organ 98 Church Plate 100 Church Registers 100 Arms of the Abbey 101 Old Tiles 101 Abbots of Tewkesbury 101 Dimensions of the Abbey 132 DEERHURST. The Priory Church105 Exterior—Tower 108 Interior—The Nave 108 The South Aisle 111 The North Aisle 112 The Font 114 The Choir 115 The Monastic Buildings121 The Saxon Chapel123 Index127