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TEWKESBURY ABBEY, FROM THE EAST.

Photo. D. Gwynne.

TEWKESBURY ABBEY, FROM THE EAST.ToList




THE ABBEY CHURCH OF

TEWKESBURY

WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE
PRIORY CHURCH OF

DEERHURST

GLOUCESTERSHIRE


BY

H.J.L.J. MASSÉ, M.A.

Author of "Gloucester Cathedral"
"Mont S. Michel," "Chartres," etc.


WITH XLIV Arms of the Abbey ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON GEORGE BELL & SONS 1906







First published, April, 1900.
Reprinted with corrections, 1901, 1906.







PREFACE.


My heartiest thanks are here expressed to all who have helped me inany way during the compiling of this book—to Sir Charles Isham, ofLamport, for allowing me the use of his Registrum Theokusburiæ forseveral months, and for permission to reproduce two pages from it; toMr. J.T. Micklethwaite for permission to make use of his paper onSaxon Churches published in the Journal of the ArchæologicalInstitute, and to the Institute for leave to reproduce the threeblocks of Deerhurst; to Mr. W.H. St. John Hope for severalsuggestions; to Mr. A.H. Hughes, of Llandudno, Dr. Oscar Clark, andMr. R.W. Dugdale, of Gloucester, for so liberally supplementing my ownstore of photographs; to Mr. S. Browett, of Tewkesbury, for the loanof the wood block on page 17; and, lastly, to Mr. W.G. Bannister, thesacristan of the Abbey, who placed his thorough knowledge of thebuilding, its records, and its heraldry, together with the whole ofhis valuable MS. notes on these points, unreservedly at my disposal.

H.J.L.J.M.






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CONTENTS.