The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury & the Priory Church of Deerhurst (Gloucestershire) - Contents and Preface (H.J.L.J. Massé, 1911)

The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury

with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst

By H.J.L.J. Massé, M.A.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I - HISTORY.
	PAGE
History of the Foundation and Fabric of the Abbey Church, and Some Account of its Benefactors	3

CHAPTER II - THE EXTERIOR.
North Porch	30
The Tower	30
The West Front	32
The South Side	34
The Cloisters	34
The Lady Chapel	37

CHAPTER III - THE INTERIOR.
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 Church	105
Exterior - Tower	108
Interior - The Nave	108
The South Aisle	111
The North Aisle	112
The Font	114
The Choir	115
The Monastic Buildings	121
The Saxon Chapel	123
Index	127

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Tewkesbury Abbey, from the East	Frontispiece
Arms of the Abbey	Title
The Abbey, from the North-west	2
Tewkesbury Abbey in 1840, by Rev. J.L. Petit	3
Page from the “Registrum Theokusburkiæ”	5
Richard Beauchamp, first husband of Isabelle Despenser, and his Armorial Connexions, from the “Registrum Theokusburiæ”	11
The Detached Bell-tower, demolished in 1817	17
The West End in 1840, by Rev. J.L. Petit	19
The Choir before 1864, from an old photograph	22
The Nave before 1864, from an old photograph	23
The Abbey Gate	25
Tile showing the Arms of FitzHamon and the Abbey impaled	27
Tewkesbury Abbey, from the North	28
The Abbey, from the South	31
The Cloister Doorway	35
The Nave, from the West End	40
Masons' Marks	41
The North Choir Aisle, looking West, showing the back of the Despenser Monument	52
Interior of the Tower above the Vaulting	54
Wall Arcade in Early English Chapel	57
The Ambulatory, looking towards St. Margaret's Chapel	59
The North Choir Aisle and St. Edmund's Chapel	61
The Vestry Door, South Choir Aisle	66
The Apsidal Chapel, South Transept	68
The Choir, looking West	72
Rib-centres in the Choir Vault	73
The Sedilia	75
The Warwick Chapel	85
Chantry of the Founder, Fitz-Hamon	89
The Despenser Monument	90
The Trinity Chapel	92
The “Wakeman Cenotaph”	94
The South Choir Aisle, looking West	96

DEERHURST.
Deerhurst Priory Church, from the South	104
Interior, looking West	110
Font	114
Plan of Deerhurst Priory Church before the Conquest, by J.T. Micklethwaite, F.S.A., from “The Archæological Journal”	118
The Tower, from “The Archæological Journal”	119
Fourteenth Century Window	122
The Saxon Chapel	123
Dedication Stone	124
Plan of Saxon Chapel	124
Dedication Slab of an Altar	124
Chancel Arch in the Saxon Chapel	125
PLAN of Deerhurst Priory and its Domestic Buildings as now existing	129
PLAN of Tewkesbury Abbey	130

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[ D. Gwynne.

TEWKESBURY ABBEY, FROM THE EAST

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 his Registrum 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 on Saxon Churches published in the journal of the Archæological Institute, and to the Institute for leave to reproduce the three 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.

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[ Dr. Oscar Clark.

THE ABBEY, FROM THE NORTH WEST

OCR/transcript by Rosemary Lockie in June 2013.

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The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury

By H.J.L.J. Massé, M.A.