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A History of the County of Gloucester
… by deed of 1674, gave a range of buildings north of the abbey church, together with various plots of land, for the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… town had no other parish church but the west end of the abbey church, 1 and that appears to have been true from the … of the monastery at Cranborne. 10 From its beginnings the abbey church probably provided a place of worship for the townsmen. The abbey, as owner of the tithes of the parish, may be presumed …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… it among free tenants or by granting it to the abbey. Nevertheless, in 1363 there were still 460 a. of … acreage in hand. 7 In 1291 the only land that Tewkesbury Abbey had in demesne in the parish was two yardlands in the … Mythe copyhold tenure of Tewkesbury manor 14 and of the abbey's fee 15 remained important until the mid-16th century, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… centre. In 1102 Robert FitzHamon founded the Benedictine abbey of Tewkesbury, providing the other main feature of the … had risen to 136, 25 and there were another 6 in the abbey's fee. 26 From the 15th and 16th century, surviving … two large estates controlling the town, for not only the abbey's estates but also those of the honor of Gloucester, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… burgesses, and commonalty of the town had bought the abbey church from the Crown, also gave the borough more … have been considerable; in 1540 a serjeant-at-mace for the abbey fee was appointed, in addition to those appointed in … in 1540 included a prison for transgressors within the abbey's fee. 12 A prison in Tewkesbury mentioned in 1287 13 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… LODGE. The Crown granted the park and lands to Tewkesbury Abbey in 1504. 47 After the Dissolution the Crown leased the … estate in Southwick. 110 Until the Dissolution Tewkesbury Abbey had two houses Deerhurst Place, otherwise called … 112 The Southwick estate that had belonged to the abbey was granted by the Crown to William Read in 1553. The …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… from Joseph E. Priestley, who had held his school in the Abbey House since 1870 or earlier 14 and remained as head … a two-story building of red brick and stone opposite the abbey church. A new constitution was drawn up in 1909, 18 and … in 1788 and held in a gallery in the north transept of the abbey church; 38 in 1833 there were 138 boys and 62 girls, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 15 Musical activity in the town centred naturally on the abbey church, with its three organs. 16 A music festival was … Street west of Gander Lane, 84 perhaps on the site of Abbey Lawn House (demolished 1964), and was not the same as … interest has been drawn to the complex of buildings of the abbey precincts and to the location of the supposed Holm …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… from the cross the town was for long contained by the abbey and its precinct, and it is likely that buildings … Gander Lane joins it) by the early 12th century when the abbey was founded. On the north-west side of Church Street, … century the lines of streets and lanes north-west of the abbey remained irregular and confused, though they were far …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… of St. Mary-the-More belonged from an early date to the abbey of St. Albans. Between 1077 and 1093 Niel Daubeney and … gave half the church of St. Mary in Wallingford to the abbey. 3 Later the abbey evidently acquired the rest of the church, and it, with …