Tewkesbury Abbey and Its Associations - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0217223443 ISBN 13: 9780217223447

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1875. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE LORDS OF TEWKESBURY AND PATRONS OF THE ABBEY. The great work which had been done at the abbey by FitzHamon and his son-in-law placed them in the position of 'founders,' and their descendants were thus brought into a close association with it which was maintained almost to the time when the monastery ceased to exist. They must have been among the most wealthy an d po werful of the mediaeval nobility; and one of their principal estates was the manor of Tewkesbury, which comprehended all the lands in the town and its immediate neighbourhood, as far as Hanley Castle, that did not belong to the abbey, or Barton, Manor. These lords were also patrons of the abbey in the same sense in which the sovereign is patron of cathedral churches. No abbot was elected by the chapter of Tewkesbury without the Conge d'elire of the- Earl of Gloucester or other Lord of Tewkesbury for the time being: and after the election the abbot was formally invested with pastoral staff and official ring in the same manner as the bishops thus received their temporalities from the hands of the sovereign. For two hundred and fifty years also the choir of the abbey was the customary burial place of the Earls of Gloucester and the later lords with their families. Their dust still lies beneath the feet of those who pass up to the altar; and the pavement was once rich with many a memorial of De Clare, De Spencer, and Beauchamp, whose names had been well known to their countrymen, and whose memories were dear to the people of Tewkesbury. Some of the earlier of these memorials were effigies sculptured on Purbeck marble coffin-lids, such as may still be seen on the tomb of King John in Worcester Cathedral. Others were 'altar tombs,' surmounted by recumbent statues of alabaster, gilded and coloured into ...

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• ISBN 10: 0217223443
• ISBN 13: 9780217223447
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