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Evesham Abbey Bell TowerArchitectural and topographical findings
George Demidowicz
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A prospect of Evesham Bell Tower (anon) c. 1795Yale Centre for British Art , New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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from David Cox’s booklet, Evesham Abbey and Parish Churches (1980)
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Canterbury Cathedral
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1218-1229 great bell tower mentioned, started by Master Sortes (sacrist)
1291 bell tower collapses, both timber and lead
1319-20 William Stow, sacrist, builds a new bell tower
1379-1395 Abbott Roger Zatton, previously sacrist, contributes to the construction of a bell tower in stone
1520s to early 1530s Abbot Clement Lichfield builds the fourth? and present bell tower
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Clement Lichfieldc.1473 birth
before 1497 entered Benedictine Order
1497 ordained a priest, whilst scholar at Oxford,
probably at Gloucester College
1500 admitted as Bachelor of Theology
1500-1503 sacrist? Evesham
1507 Doctor of Theology
1508-1509? sacrist? Evesham
1510?-1513 prior, Evesham
1513-1538 abbot of Evesham
1546 death
bell at St Nicholas Church Gloucester
anchor: symbol of St Clement, 3rd bishop of Rome
martyred AD 98
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The bell tower was the culmination of Lichfield’s campaign to enhance the public
precinct/churchyard at Evesham
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The West Porch, All Saints
Prince of Wales: three ostrich feathersCatherine of Aragon: pomegranates
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1501 Arthur, Prince of Wales, betrothed to Catherine of Aragon1502 Arthur dies1503 Henry betrothed to Catherine1504 Henry created Prince of Wales1509 Henry marries Catherine shortly before crowned as Henry VIII
Porch therefore built between 1501-1509 Clement Lichfield, sacrist? 1500-1503
1508-?
J M W Turner’s grand tour of the Welsh Marches in the mid 1790s included Evesham
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Lichfield’s Chapel, All Saints c.1509-10
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Initials of Clement Lichfield Prior on a pendant in the chapel….more pomegranates, but now with a crownIn 1509, after his marriage to Catherine, Henry was crowned king and Catherine, queen, in a double coronation
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Lichfield is buried in his chapelat All Saints in 1546
recorded by Thomas Dingley (1670-1680)
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Lichfield’s Chapel, St Laurence, early 1520s?
Is this evidence of the ‘very great and curious walk’ still visible in the 17th century(Habington)
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The fan vault, Lichfield’s Chapel, St Laurence
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The east window, St Laurence, built at same time as chapel?early 1520s William Tindal’s History and A of A and B of E… 1794
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The earliest image of the bell tower by Thomas Dingley (1670-1680)
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EAB Barnard’s pioneering work on Clement Lichfield and the bell tower provided a date for its construction (c1524 – c.1532)
Transactions of WorcsArchaeological Society
1927-1928
1910
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Undercrofts St Mary’s Priory Coventry
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NE SE NW SW
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St Mary’s Hall Gatehouse, Coventry (1390s-1420s)
Abbot Roger Zatton’s 3rd bell tower 1379-1395
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The bell tower plinth
Lichfield’s Chapel, All Saints, plinth
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Pensions awarded to Evesham monks 1540 (TNA)
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1954
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Robert Vertue Senior’s will 1506
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Robert Vertue Snrone of the King’s master masons from 1487-1506responsible for design of :Henry VII’s chapel at Westminster
with his brother, William Vertue (fl. 1501-1527)designed the new church at Bath Abbey and began work on the vaults of St George’s Chapel, Windsor (1502-1503)
William Vertue was involved in the design of :King’s College Chapel, CambridgeCorpus Christi College Oxford
William was regarded as one of the greatest of English architectsBoth brothers were masters of the fan vault and the chapels at Evesham bear a close resemblance to their work
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Bath Abbey
Lichfield chapel, St Laurence
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If Robert Vertue, Master of the Works at Evesham in 1540, was son of the Robert Vertue snr, then it is not surprising that he followed in his father’s footsteps, but probably trained by another great mason and designer, his uncle, William. His father died when he was still a young boy.
He was too young to have designed the west porch and chapel at All Saints, but was old enough to have been involved with the chapel and west window in St Laurence and the bell tower.
Having also received a calling as a monk, an abbey mason’s workshop was an ideal position to combine both vocations
Later in 1540 he was recorded as a chaplain at All Saints church and was last heard of as vicar of Wickhamford in 1563
In the turbulent years after the Dissolution there was little work for a designer of ecclesiastical and monastic buildings
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30 June 1538 Inventory of ‘stuff and plate’ delivered by Philip Hawford, abbot of the monastery of Evesham to Clement, late abbot
Contents of seven rooms listed:Hall, Best Chamber, Second Chamber, Kitchen, Buttery and PantryHall: a folding bord, a benche, a forme, a Copbord, 6 cussyons, a chayar, a chafurn dyshe with a fote, a Chafurn to hete water yn, a peyre off andyrnes and a Carplet
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Offenham abbey manor house
30 Oct 1541 lease to Philip Hobycertain buildings were reserved for CL
30 July 1542 grant to Philip Hobydescribed as Chamberer’s Chamber, kitchen, garden, little court, Tailor’s house or Apple House and a little orchard in the park….
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Evesham Bible, Almonry Heritage Centre
‘6 belles in the tower’
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1546-1547 one bell yet rem[ains] in the Clocke house at Evesham (TNA)
c.1553-1554
A document listing lead and bells in Worcestershire delivered by John Scudamore, late receiver of the late Court of Augmentations, to William Sheldon, late receiver of the same Court (TNA)
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Bells1540s -1663 1 bell
1664-1740 6 bells
1741-1910 8 bells
1910-1951 10 bells
1951-1976 12 bells
1976-1992 13 bells
1992 - present day 14 bells
‘One of the finest rings in the country’
Chris Povey
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Valentine Green 1776 possibly exhibited at Royal Academy
Society of Antiquaries now in Almonry Heritage Centre
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A prospect of Evesham Bell Tower (anon) c. 1795Yale Centre for British Art , New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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Plan of Evesham 1820 1827 N Izod surveyor Edward Rudge’s, A Short Account of History and Antiquities of Evesham
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Rudge Estate, The Crown Inn
1902 lease plan
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‘ The Church of St Lawrence, Evesham, seen through the Arch of the Bell Tower’ by J.M.W. Turner c.1794
Turner (c.1794)
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Drawing initialled ‘J. J.’ in bottom right hand corner [John Instan, one of Peter Prattinton’s illustrators] from the Prattinton Collection, Society of Antiquaries, London.
1820 map
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Frontispiece drawn and engraved by John Coney in drawn by J.P. Neale after a sketch by [Dugdale’s] Monasticon Anglicanum: A New Edition George May, engraved by T.C. Varrall
1819 1833
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‘The Abbot’s Tower, Evesham Worcestershire’ drawn by Charles Wickes, engraved by Day & Son 1859
Bell tower from the south-east by Henry W. Taunt, Oxfordshire History Centre 1875
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bell tower from the north-east by Henry W. Taunt, NMR
1875
1878
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A prospect of Evesham Bell Tower (anon) c. 1795Yale Centre for British Art , New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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The bell tower from the south-east, photograph by Henry W. Taunt (Oxfordshire History Centre) 1883
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Postcard of the bell tower from the west c.1900
OS 1:2500 1886
OS 1:500 1886
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