Bells Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury

Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey
Church of
by H. J. L. J. Massé

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Title: Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some
Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire
Author: H. J. L. J. Massé
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[Illustration: Photo. D. Gwynne. TEWKESBURY ABBEY, FROM
THE EAST.]

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 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 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.

CONTENTS.
CHAPTER PAGE
I. History of the Foundation and Fabric of the Abbey Church, and
Some Account of its Benefactors 3
II. The Exterior 29 North Porch 30 The Tower 30 The West Front 32
The South Side 34 The Cloisters 34 The Lady Chapel 37
III. The Interior 39 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.
PAGE 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 Theokusburiæ" 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.