The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Tewkesbury, commonly known as Tewkesbury Abbey, is located in the town of Tewkesbury in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, England. A former Benedictine monastery, it is now a parish church. Considered one of the finest examples of Norman architecture in Britain, it has "probably the largest and finest Romanesque" crossing tower in. DioceseVicarRevd Canon Nick DaviesOrganistSimon BellCountryEnglandHistoryThe Chronicle of Tewkesbury records that the first Christian worship was brought to the area by Theoc, a missionary from, who built his cell in the mid-7th century near a gravel spit where the. . The church itself is one of the finest in England. Its massive is noted in Buildings of England to be "probably the largest and finest example in England". Fourteen o. . Notable surviving in Tewkesbury Abbey include: • 1107 – when the abbey's founder died in 1107, he was buried in the chapter house while his son-in-law . •, a late-Saxon thegn•, (c. 1435 – 4 May 1471)• •.
[PDF Version]
Menu
