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background-color:#BC50A5">Pershore Abbey</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-weight:bold">Abbey Church of Holy Cross with Saint Edburgha</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-weight:bold">Church of the Holy Cross</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="border-bottom:1px #aaa solid"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Pershore_Abbey_3a.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Pershore_Abbey_3a.jpg/220px-Pershore_Abbey_3a.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="248" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Pershore_Abbey_3a.jpg/330px-Pershore_Abbey_3a.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Pershore_Abbey_3a.jpg/440px-Pershore_Abbey_3a.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2564" data-file-height="2894" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Pershore Abbey</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="border-bottom:1px #aaa solid"><a class="mw-kartographer-map notheme mw-kartographer-container center" style="width: 250px; height: 200px;" data-mw-kartographer="mapframe" data-style="osm-intl" data-width="250" data-height="200" data-zoom="13" data-overlays="["_981cdcb9347a27540c541e17b25199826c862aef"]"><img src="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,13,a,a,250x200.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Pershore_Abbey&revid=1259590894&groups=_981cdcb9347a27540c541e17b25199826c862aef" width="250" height="200" decoding="async" srcset="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,13,a,a,250x200@2x.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Pershore_Abbey&revid=1259590894&groups=_981cdcb9347a27540c541e17b25199826c862aef 2x" alt="Map" /></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Christian_denomination" title="Christian denomination">Denomination</a></th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Previous denomination</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Churchmanship" title="Churchmanship">Churchmanship</a></th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Broad_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Broad Church">Broad Church</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.pershoreabbey.org.uk/">[1]</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color:white; background-color:#BC50A5">History</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Dedication_of_churches" title="Dedication of churches">Dedication</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Christian_cross" title="Christian cross">Holy Cross</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color:white; background-color:#BC50A5">Architecture</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Heritage designation</th><td class="infobox-data category">Grade I <a href="/wiki/Listed_building" title="Listed building">listed building</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Designated</th><td class="infobox-data">11 February 1965</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Sacred_architecture" class="mw-redirect" title="Sacred architecture">Style</a></th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Romanesque_architecture" title="Romanesque architecture">Romanesque</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gothic_architecture" title="Gothic architecture">Gothic</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color:white; background-color:#BC50A5">Administration</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Ecclesiastical_province" title="Ecclesiastical province">Province</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Province_of_Canterbury" title="Province of Canterbury">Canterbury</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Diocese" title="Diocese">Diocese</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Anglican_Diocese_of_Worcester" title="Anglican Diocese of Worcester">Worcester</a></td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Parish" title="Parish">Parish</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Pershore" title="Pershore">Pershore</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color:white; background-color:#BC50A5">Clergy</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Vicar" title="Vicar">Vicar(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data agent">Claire Lording</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Pershore Abbey</b>, at <a href="/wiki/Pershore" title="Pershore">Pershore</a> in <a href="/wiki/Worcestershire" title="Worcestershire">Worcestershire</a>, was a <a href="/wiki/Benedictine" class="mw-redirect" title="Benedictine">Benedictine</a> <a href="/wiki/Abbey" title="Abbey">abbey</a> with Anglo-Saxon origins and is now an <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Anglican</a> <a href="/wiki/Parish_church" title="Parish church">parish church</a>, the <b>Church of the Holy Cross</b>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pershore_Abbey&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foundation">Foundation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pershore_Abbey&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Foundation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The foundation of the minster at Pershore is alluded to in a spurious charter of King <a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelred_of_Mercia" title="Æthelred of Mercia">Æthelred of Mercia</a> (r. 675–704). It purports to be the charter by which Æthelred granted 300 <a href="/wiki/Hide_(unit)" title="Hide (unit)">hides</a> (about 36,000 acres) at Gloucester to King <a href="/wiki/Osric,_king_of_the_Hwicce" class="mw-redirect" title="Osric, king of the Hwicce">Osric of the Hwicce</a>, and another 300 at Pershore to Osric's brother Oswald.<sup id="cite_ref-Sims94-6_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sims94-6-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is preserved only as a copy in a 14th-century register of Gloucester, where it is followed by two charters listing the endowments made to the abbey until the reign of King <a href="/wiki/Burgred_of_Mercia" title="Burgred of Mercia"> Burgred</a> (852-874).<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-S1782_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-S1782-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 300 hides mentioned here are unlikely to be a contemporary detail, as they were intended to represent the triple <a href="/wiki/Hundred_(county_subdivision)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hundred (county subdivision)">hundred</a> which later made up the area of Worcestershire.<sup id="cite_ref-Sims94-6_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sims94-6-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Historian <a href="/wiki/H._P._R._Finberg" title="H. P. R. Finberg">H. P. R. Finberg</a> suggests that the foundation charter may have been drafted in the 9th century, based on some authentic material.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Oswald's foundation of a monastery at Pershore is not stated explicitly in the charter, but the Worcester chronicle <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cronica_de_Anglia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cronica de Anglia (page does not exist)">Cronica de Anglia</a></i>, written <i>c</i>. 1150, reports it under the annal for 683, and <a href="/wiki/John_Leland_(antiquary)" title="John Leland (antiquary)">John Leland</a>, consulting the now lost <i>Annals of Pershore</i>, places the event around 689.<sup id="cite_ref-Sims94-6_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sims94-6-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Sims-Williams" title="Patrick Sims-Williams">Patrick Sims-Williams</a> suggests that the foundation by Oswald may also represent an oral tradition at Pershore, as its archives were probably destroyed in fires of 1002 and again in 1223.<sup id="cite_ref-Sims94-6_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sims94-6-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 9th century, Pershore comes to light again as a minster under the patronage of <a href="/wiki/List_of_monarchs_of_Mercia" title="List of monarchs of Mercia">Mercian kings</a>. In other charters contained in the Gloucester register, <a href="/wiki/Coenwulf_of_Mercia" title="Coenwulf of Mercia">Coenwulf</a> (r. 796–821) and Burgred are recorded as having been patrons of Pershore.<sup id="cite_ref-S1782_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-S1782-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A charter of <a href="/wiki/Edgar_the_Peaceful" class="mw-redirect" title="Edgar the Peaceful">King Edgar</a> refers back to a grant of privileges by Coenwulf at the request of his <a href="/wiki/Ealdorman" title="Ealdorman">ealdorman</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Dux" title="Dux">dux</a></i>) Beornnoth.<sup id="cite_ref-Sims94-6_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sims94-6-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-S786_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-S786-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Refoundation">Refoundation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pershore_Abbey&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Refoundation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the reign of King Edgar (959-975), Pershore reappears as one of the abbeys to be re-established (or restored) under the programme of <a href="/wiki/Benedictine" class="mw-redirect" title="Benedictine">Benedictine</a> reform. Writing <i>c</i>. 1000, the Ramsey monk <a href="/wiki/Byrhtferth" title="Byrhtferth">Byrhtferth</a> relates that under the auspices of <a href="/wiki/Oswald_of_Worcester" title="Oswald of Worcester">Oswald, bishop of Worcester</a>, seven monasteries were founded in his diocese, notably including Pershore.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first abbot was one Foldbriht,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> whose name is sufficiently rare to suggest that he may be the same Foldbriht whom Bishop <a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelwold" title="Æthelwold">Æthelwold</a> previously installed at <a href="/wiki/Abingdon_Abbey" title="Abingdon Abbey">Abingdon</a> and used to be a monk of <a href="/wiki/Glastonbury_Abbey" title="Glastonbury Abbey">Glastonbury</a> before that time.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The refoundation is what lies behind an exceptionally elaborate charter for Pershore, dated 972, in which King Edgar is presented as granting new lands and privileges as well as confirming old ones, such as the one granted by Coenwulf.<sup id="cite_ref-S786_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-S786-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The authenticity of this document, however, has been questioned. <a href="/wiki/Simon_Keynes" title="Simon Keynes">Simon Keynes</a> in 1980 showed that it belongs to the so-called <i>Orthodoxorum</i> group of charters, so named after the initial word of their <a href="/wiki/Preface" title="Preface">proem</a>, which he concluded were forgeries based on a charter of <a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelred_the_Unready" title="Æthelred the Unready">Æthelred II</a>'s reign.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since then, Susan Kelly and John Hudson have vindicated the status of some of these charters, including the one for Pershore, which is written in square minuscule characteristic of some of Edgar's charters.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> More recently, Peter Stokes has brought to light a variant copy of the charter and suggests that two different versions may have been produced around the same time, somewhere between 972 and 1066. A possible scenario is that they were produced to make up for the loss of the original charter(s), perhaps shortly after the fire which is reported to have destroyed the abbey in <i>c</i>. 1002 (see below).<sup id="cite_ref-Stokes72-3_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stokes72-3-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 12th-century historian <a href="/wiki/William_of_Malmesbury" title="William of Malmesbury">William of Malmesbury</a>, who seems unaware of any pre-existing minster, claims that one Æthelweard (<i>Egelwardus</i>), whom he describes as "ealdorman of Dorset", had founded the abbey of Pershore in the time of King Edgar.<sup id="cite_ref-Gesta-iv.162_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gesta-iv.162-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similarly, <a href="/wiki/Osbert_de_Clare" class="mw-redirect" title="Osbert de Clare">Osbert</a>'s <i>Life</i> of <a href="/wiki/Eadburh_of_Winchester" title="Eadburh of Winchester">Eadburh of Winchester</a> alleges that one <i>Alwardus</i>, who is styled <i>comes</i> and <i>consul</i>, was responsible for the refoundation. Both authors also attribute to him a role in the translation of some of the saint's relics to Pershore. Osbert writes that an abbess of <a href="/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Abbey,_Winchester" title="St Mary's Abbey, Winchester">Nunnaminster</a> had sold some relics to Æthelweard (<i>Alwardus</i>), who in turn handed them over for the refoundation of Pershore.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some scholars have identified him with <a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelweard_(historian)" title="Æthelweard (historian)">Æthelweard</a>, the well-known chronicler and ealdorman of the western shires.<sup id="cite_ref-World11-3_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-World11-3-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Whatever high-level patronage the foundation may have received, it was not enough to sustain its fortunes for very long. Precisely what happened to Pershore in the later 10th century is poorly documented, but some sources seem to hint that it went into decline during the succession crisis which emerged in the wake of King Edgar's death.<sup id="cite_ref-Williams167-8_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Williams167-8-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> William of Malmesbury says that "it, too, like the others, decayed to a pitiful extent, and was reduced by more than a half".<sup id="cite_ref-Gesta-iv.162_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gesta-iv.162-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Leland, the <i>Annals of Pershore</i> hold an earl called <i>Delfer</i> responsible for depriving the abbey of several of its lands. This <i>Delfer</i> has been interpreted as a misreading for <a href="/wiki/%C3%86lfhere,_Ealdorman_of_Mercia" title="Ælfhere, Ealdorman of Mercia">Ælfhere</a> (d. 983), ealdorman of Mercia<sup id="cite_ref-Williams167-8_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Williams167-8-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (whom Leland mentions elsewhere).<sup id="cite_ref-LelandIter_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LelandIter-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While himself a patron of Ely and Abingdon, Ælfhere was also charged with despoiling reformed monasteries during <a href="/wiki/Edward_the_Martyr" title="Edward the Martyr">Edward the Martyr</a>'s brief reign (975-978). The targets included houses refounded by Bishop Oswald or Bishop Æthelwold and considerably enriched under the patronage of Æthelstan Half-King's sons, notably <a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelwine,_Ealdorman_of_East_Anglia" title="Æthelwine, Ealdorman of East Anglia">Æthelwine, ealdorman of East Anglia</a>. <a href="/wiki/Evesham_Abbey" title="Evesham Abbey">Evesham Abbey</a>, for instance, as later reported by <a href="/wiki/Chronicon_Abbatiae_de_Evesham" title="Chronicon Abbatiae de Evesham">its own chronicle</a>, also claimed to have lost several of its lands in this way, and <a href="/wiki/Winchcombe" title="Winchcombe">Winchcombe</a> was disbanded altogether. Æthelwine, in his turn, was remembered at Ely as a despoiler of its lands. Tensions between Ælfhere and Bishop Oswald, whose authorities overlapped, and between Ælfhere and Æthelwine, with whom Oswald maintained a close relationship, are therefore likely to have been the principal cause of the upheaval.<sup id="cite_ref-Williams167-8_19-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Williams167-8-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Whether a liberty similar to that of <a href="/wiki/Oswaldslow_(hundred)" class="mw-redirect" title="Oswaldslow (hundred)">Oswaldslow</a> was an extra cause for concern, compromising Ælfhere's authority as ealdorman, cannot be ascertained from the sources.<sup id="cite_ref-Williams167-8_19-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Williams167-8-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id=""Second"_refoundation"><span id=".22Second.22_refoundation"></span>"Second" refoundation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pershore_Abbey&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: "Second" refoundation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pershore_Abbey_Nave.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Pershore_Abbey_Nave.JPG/250px-Pershore_Abbey_Nave.JPG" decoding="async" width="250" height="333" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Pershore_Abbey_Nave.JPG/375px-Pershore_Abbey_Nave.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Pershore_Abbey_Nave.JPG/500px-Pershore_Abbey_Nave.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="2048" /></a><figcaption>The chancel</figcaption></figure> <p>Pershore suffered worse misfortune when, according to Leland, it was destroyed by fire and subsequently deserted by the monks,<sup id="cite_ref-LelandIter_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LelandIter-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Victoria_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Victoria-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> probably in the year 1002.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNBOdda_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNBOdda-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The monastic archives were largely lost in the event, as no original record from before that date survives today.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNBOdda_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNBOdda-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pershore, however, found a generous patron in the wealthy nobleman <a href="/wiki/Odda_of_Deerhurst" title="Odda of Deerhurst">Odda of Deerhurst</a> (d. 1056), who restored many of its lands and granted new ones. It has been suggested<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too-vague attribution or weasel words. (April 2019)">who?</span></a></i>]</sup> that he was a kinsman of the ealdorman Æthelweard. The earliest extant record from the archive of Pershore, a charter of 1014 by which King Æthelred granted Mathon (Herefordshire) to ealdorman Leofwine, may testify to Odda's restorations of lands to the house.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNBOdda_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNBOdda-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The monastery was active again by the 1020s, as its abbot Brihtheah was promoted bishop of Worcester in 1033.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNBOdda_22-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNBOdda-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Odda's brother Ælfric was buried at Pershore in 1053, joined three years later by Odda himself.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNBOdda_22-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNBOdda-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Odda's lifetime the total landed assets of Pershore grew to 300 hides, but after the loss of its benefactor in 1056 about two-thirds were seized and given to <a href="/wiki/Edward_the_Confessor" title="Edward the Confessor">Edward the Confessor</a>'s new foundation at Westminster.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNBOdda_22-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNBOdda-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The original single sheet which preserves the fullest version of King Edgar's refoundation charter (though it need not be authentic) is marked by a number of textual alterations and erasures. Some of these changes may suggest a response to the abbey's proprietary struggles.<sup id="cite_ref-Stokes72-3_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stokes72-3-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From the early 12th century there is evidence that Pershore Abbey claimed possession of some of the relics of Saint <a href="/wiki/Eadburh_of_Winchester" title="Eadburh of Winchester">Eadburh of Winchester</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Saint" title="Saint">sainted</a> daughter of King <a href="/wiki/Edward_the_Elder" title="Edward the Elder">Edward the Elder</a>. Her body was initially buried at <a href="/wiki/Nunnaminster" class="mw-redirect" title="Nunnaminster">Nunnaminster</a> (Winchester), but it was translated in the 960s to a more central spot in <a href="/wiki/Winchester" title="Winchester">Winchester</a>, and again to a shrine in the 970s. Among several possibilities, Susan Ridyard has suggested that the Eadburh whose relics were preserved at Pershore may have been a Mercian saint of that name whose identity had become obscure.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_Middle_Ages">Later Middle Ages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pershore_Abbey&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Later Middle Ages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> The main building was begun in about 1100. In the fourteenth century it benefited greatly from the generosity of <a href="/wiki/Adam_de_Harvington" title="Adam de Harvington">Adam de Harvington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer" title="Chancellor of the Exchequer">Chancellor of the Exchequer</a> 1327–30, who was a cousin, and eventually the heir, of the Abbot, William of Harvington. The abbey was <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries" class="mw-redirect" title="Dissolution of the Monasteries">dissolved</a> in 1539. A monk of Pershore, named Richard Beerly, was one of those who gave evidence to <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cromwell" title="Thomas Cromwell">Thomas Cromwell</a> in 1536 about the misbehaviour of some of his brothers, writing that "Monckes drynk an bowll after collacyon tell ten or xii of the clock, and cum to mattens as dronck as myss, and sume at cardes, sume at dyss."<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (Monks drink a bowl after <a href="/wiki/Collation_(meal)" title="Collation (meal)">collation</a><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> until ten or twelve o'clock, and come to <a href="/wiki/Matins" title="Matins">Matins</a> as drunk as mice, some [playing] at cards, some at dice.)<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pershore_Abbey_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1057540.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Pershore_Abbey_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1057540.jpg/300px-Pershore_Abbey_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1057540.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Pershore_Abbey_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1057540.jpg/450px-Pershore_Abbey_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1057540.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Pershore_Abbey_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1057540.jpg/600px-Pershore_Abbey_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1057540.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="426" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure><p>Pershore Abbey church was partly demolished after the reformation when it was surrendered to the King's Commissioners in 1540; only the tower, choir, and south transept remain.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The abbey church remained in use as a <a href="/wiki/Parish_church" title="Parish church">parish church</a>. When the north <a href="/wiki/Transept" title="Transept">transept</a> collapsed in 1686, a wall was built in its place. Further alterations were carried out, including a <a href="/wiki/Victorian_restoration" title="Victorian restoration">restoration</a> by <a href="/wiki/George_Gilbert_Scott" title="George Gilbert Scott">George Gilbert Scott</a> in 1862–64. Scott removed the <a href="/wiki/Belfry_(architecture)" class="mw-redirect" title="Belfry (architecture)">belfry</a> floor and opened up the <a href="/wiki/Lantern_tower" title="Lantern tower">lantern tower</a>, exposing the internal <a href="/wiki/Tracery" title="Tracery">tracery</a> which he thought the best in England after that at <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Cathedral" title="Lincoln Cathedral">Lincoln Cathedral</a>. The tower pinnacles were added in 1871.<sup id="cite_ref-Crawford_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crawford-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1913, two western <a href="/wiki/Flying_buttress" title="Flying buttress">flying buttresses</a> were added to replace the support from the missing portion of the building. </p><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Current_structure_and_features">Current structure and features</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pershore_Abbey&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Current structure and features"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pershore_Abbey_font.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Pershore_Abbey_font.jpg/150px-Pershore_Abbey_font.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Pershore_Abbey_font.jpg/225px-Pershore_Abbey_font.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Pershore_Abbey_font.jpg/300px-Pershore_Abbey_font.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2448" data-file-height="3264" /></a><figcaption> <a href="/wiki/Norman_architecture" title="Norman architecture">Norman</a> baptismal font</figcaption></figure> <p>The church as it now stands represents only a small portion of the original building. It is a Grade I <a href="/wiki/Listed_building" title="Listed building">listed building</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Repairs in 1994 stabilised the south transept, strengthened its roof and repointed the tower and pinnacles. An underfloor heating system was also installed. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bells">Bells</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pershore_Abbey&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Bells"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Pershore Abbey has a ring of eight bells, of which six were cast by the younger <a href="/wiki/Rudhall_of_Gloucester" title="Rudhall of Gloucester">Abraham Rudhall</a> in 1729. The treble was cast in 1814 by Thomas Mears of the <a href="/wiki/Whitechapel_Bell_Foundry" title="Whitechapel Bell Foundry">Whitechapel Bell Foundry</a>. The cracked 4th (also 1729 by Rudhall) was recast by J. Barwell & Sons of Birmingham<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with "moderate success"<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in 1897, the same year they were rehung. The largest bell (the tenor) is estimated to weigh 25½ cwt (2856 lbs.) and sounds the note D.<sup id="cite_ref-Pershore_Bells_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pershore_Bells-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The ringing room, devised as part of Gilbert Scott's 1862-64 restorations, is a metal 'cage' suspended high above the chancel crossing; it is accessed by means of two stone spiral staircases, a walkway through the roof, a squeeze through a narrow passage and a see-through iron staircase. </p><p>The bells have the following inscriptions (in capital letters).<sup id="cite_ref-Pershore_Bells_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pershore_Bells-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAndrews190118_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrews190118-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dd>1. (Treble) "Joseph Martin and Thomas Evans churchwardens 1814"</dd> <dd>2. "Peace and good neighbourhood"</dd> <dd>3. "Abr Rudhall of Gloucester cast all of us"</dd> <dd>4. "Barwell Founder Birmingham. Prosperity to the Church of England 1729 Recast 1897"<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd> <dd>5. "Prosperity to all our benefactors A R 1729"</dd> <dd>6. "Walter Marriott and Edmund Gale churchwardens A R 1729"</dd> <dd>7. "Richard Roberts Esq John Yeend and Thomas Ashfield Gent[leme]n trustees A R 1729"</dd> <dd>8. (Tenor) "I to the Church the living call: And to the grave do summon all"</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Font">Font</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pershore_Abbey&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Font"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In about 1840 the abbey was given a new <a href="/wiki/Baptismal_font" title="Baptismal font">baptismal font</a>. The original <a href="/wiki/Norman_architecture" title="Norman architecture">Norman</a> font was removed to the churchyard where it served as a <a href="/wiki/Watering_trough" title="Watering trough">cattle trough</a>, and later as a garden ornament. In 1912 a <a href="/wiki/War_memorial" title="War memorial">war memorial</a> was erected on the site of the <a href="/wiki/Victorian_era" title="Victorian era">Victorian</a> font and the old font was re-instated, on a pedestal designed by <a href="/wiki/Harold_Brakspear" title="Harold Brakspear">Harold Brakspear</a>. The font is decorated with an interlacing <a href="/w/index.php?title=Arcade_(design)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arcade (design) (page does not exist)">arcade</a>, in the panels of which are the figures of <a href="/wiki/Christ" class="mw-redirect" title="Christ">Christ</a> and his <a href="/wiki/Apostles_in_the_New_Testament" title="Apostles in the New Testament">Apostles</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Abbots">Abbots</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pershore_Abbey&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Abbots"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th width="25%">Name </th> <th width="20%">In office </th> <th width="55%">Comments </th></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>Foldbriht </td> <td><i>c</i>. 970 – 988 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-HeadsI_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadsI-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>Brihtheah (Brihteah) </td> <td>? – 1033 </td> <td>Nephew of <a href="/wiki/Wulfstan_(died_956)" title="Wulfstan (died 956)">Wulfstan I, Archbishop of York</a>; went on to become bishop of Worcester (1033–8)<sup id="cite_ref-HeadsI_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadsI-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>Ælfric </td> <td>? </td> <td><i>fl</i>. 1046 x 1050.<sup id="cite_ref-HeadsI_41-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadsI-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>Edmund </td> <td>1058–1085 </td> <td>d. 1085.<sup id="cite_ref-HeadsI_41-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadsI-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>Thurstan </td> <td>1085–1087 </td> <td>Master of Gloucester.<sup id="cite_ref-HeadsI_41-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadsI-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>Hugh </td> <td>? </td> <td>Died before 1113.<sup id="cite_ref-HeadsI_41-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadsI-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>Guy </td> <td>? – 1102<div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> ? – 1136/7 </td> <td>Deposed in 1102, but later restored to office.<sup id="cite_ref-HeadsI_41-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadsI-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>William </td> <td>1138 – ? </td> <td>Master of Eye.<sup id="cite_ref-HeadsI_41-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadsI-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>Thomas </td> <td>? </td> <td>Appears in 1143 x 1145 and following suspension, again in 1145 x 1150.<sup id="cite_ref-HeadsI_41-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadsI-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>Reginald </td> <td>? – 1174 </td> <td>First known appearance in 1155.<sup id="cite_ref-HeadsI_41-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadsI-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>Simon </td> <td>1175–1198 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-HeadsI_41-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadsI-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>Master Anselm </td> <td>1198–1203 </td> <td>Master of Reading, d. 1203.<sup id="cite_ref-HeadsI_41-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadsI-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>Gervase </td> <td>1204–1234 </td> <td>d. 1234.<sup id="cite_ref-HeadsI_41-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadsI-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HeadsII_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadsII-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>Roger de Rudeby (Rudby) </td> <td>1234–1251 </td> <td>Chamberlain of Pershore.<sup id="cite_ref-HeadsII_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadsII-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>Elerius </td> <td>1251–1264 </td> <td>Prior of Cogges.<sup id="cite_ref-HeadsII_42-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadsII-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>Henry of Bidford </td> <td>1264 – ? </td> <td>Master of Pershore.<sup id="cite_ref-HeadsII_42-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadsII-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>Henry de Caldewelle </td> <td>1274–1290 </td> <td>Master of Pershore.<sup id="cite_ref-HeadsII_42-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadsII-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>William de Leghe </td> <td>1290–1307 </td> <td>Cellarer of Pershore.<sup id="cite_ref-HeadsII_42-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadsII-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>William of Harvington </td> <td>1307–1340 </td> <td>Master of Pershore, etc.<sup id="cite_ref-HeadsII_42-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadsII-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>Thomas of Pirton (Pyriton) </td> <td>1340–1349 </td> <td>Cellarer of Pershore.<sup id="cite_ref-HeadsII_42-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadsII-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>Peter of Pendock </td> <td>1349–1363 </td> <td>Master of Pershore.<sup id="cite_ref-HeadsII_42-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadsII-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>Peter (de) Bradewey(e) </td> <td>1363–1379 </td> <td>Master of Pershore.<sup id="cite_ref-HeadsII_42-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HeadsII-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>Thomas de Upton </td> <td>1379 </td> <td>Elected 1379.<sup id="cite_ref-Victoria_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Victoria-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>William de Newenton </td> <td>1413 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-Victoria_21-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Victoria-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>Edmund Hert </td> <td>1456–1479 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-Victoria_21-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Victoria-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>Robert Stanwey </td> <td>1479 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-Victoria_21-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Victoria-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>John Pibleton </td> <td>1497 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-Victoria_21-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Victoria-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>William Compton </td> <td>1504–1526 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-Victoria_21-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Victoria-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td>John Stonywell </td> <td>1526–1539 x 40 </td> <td>Surrendered the abbey<sup id="cite_ref-Victoria_21-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Victoria-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Organ">Organ</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pershore_Abbey&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Organ"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The earliest record of an organ in Pershore abbey is from the parish magazine for June 1825 which stated that the parishioners had started a voluntary subscription fund for the erection of an organ.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This organ was built by Mr. Russell of London and opened by the organist <a href="/wiki/Charles_E._J._Clarke" title="Charles E. J. Clarke">Charles Clarke</a> of <a href="/wiki/Worcester_Cathedral" title="Worcester Cathedral">Worcester Cathedral</a> on 1 November 1826.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This organ is thought to have functioned for 47 years when it was sold to Sedgley Parish Church. In 1864 it is recorded that during a restoration of the church, it was reconstructed by Nicholson of <a href="/wiki/Malvern,_Worcestershire" title="Malvern, Worcestershire">Malvern</a> and moved to the north-east chapel.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A new three manual organ was built by Nicholson of <a href="/wiki/Malvern,_Worcestershire" title="Malvern, Worcestershire">Malvern</a> and opened on 18 April 1873.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Nicholson was restored twice by <a href="/wiki/J._W._Walker_%26_Sons_Ltd" title="J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd">J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd</a>, in 1940<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and 1971.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was replaced by a Bradford electronic organ. </p><p>A new pipe organ, costing around £850,000, was commissioned from the Fratelli Ruffatti workshop in Italy and installed in 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Past organists and masters of music include Charles Tovey (1832-1868<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), William Hancox (1868<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>-1869), Charles Henry Ogle (1869-1896), Edred Martin Chaundy (1898–1899, formerly of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Enniskillen_Parish_Church&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Enniskillen Parish Church (page does not exist)">Enniskillen Parish Church</a>, afterwards <a href="/w/index.php?title=Holy_Trinity_Church,_Stroud&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Holy Trinity Church, Stroud (page does not exist)">Holy Trinity Church, Stroud</a> and <a href="/wiki/St_Patrick%27s_Cathedral,_Armagh_(Church_of_Ireland)" title="St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (Church of Ireland)">Armagh Cathedral</a>), Frank Alfred Charles Mason (1900–1949<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), Peter Bruce Waddington (1949-1951), Rodney Clifford Baldwyn (1951<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>–1981), Ian Gerrard (1993–2003), Sheila Joynes (2003–2004), Mike Pegg (2004–2005), David Barclay (2005–2007) and Alex Crawford (2007–2008). In 2009, Mike Pegg resumed his former duties. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-notice" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/20px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/30px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/40px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text" style="width: auto;"><div class="mbox-text-span">This list is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lists#Incomplete_lists" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists">incomplete</a>; you can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pershore_Abbey&action=edit">adding missing items</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2008</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Grounds">Grounds</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pershore_Abbey&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Grounds"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The buried foundations of the other monastic buildings, which lie to the southwest of the church, were identified in an archaeological excavation in 1929.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the Dissolution, these buildings and the abbey grounds were acquired by John Richardson. The buildings were demolished and the grounds passed through various owners. Abbey House was later built on the site,<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> sometime in the 1830s. In 1910 its owner, Henry Wise, donated the house to the <a href="/wiki/Anglican_Benedictine" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglican Benedictine">Anglican Benedictine</a> monks of <a href="/wiki/Caldey_Abbey" title="Caldey Abbey">Caldey Abbey</a>, Pembrokeshire. When these monks converted to Roman Catholicism in 1913, they returned Abbey House to Wise who then provided it for the use of the small remnant of monks from Caldey who had remained Anglican.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1922 the monks bought the house.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They left Pershore for <a href="/wiki/Nashdom_Abbey" class="mw-redirect" title="Nashdom Abbey">Nashdom Abbey</a>, Buckinghamshire, in 1926,<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but only sold Abbey House in 1947 when it was demolished and the grounds became housing and parkland.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pershore_Abbey&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_English_abbeys,_priories_and_friaries_serving_as_parish_churches" title="List of English abbeys, priories and friaries serving as parish churches">List of English abbeys, priories and friaries serving as parish churches</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pershore_Abbey&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pershore_Abbey_from_the_west.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Pershore Abbey from the west"><img alt="Pershore Abbey from the west" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Pershore_Abbey_from_the_west.jpg/80px-Pershore_Abbey_from_the_west.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Pershore_Abbey_from_the_west.jpg/120px-Pershore_Abbey_from_the_west.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Pershore_Abbey_from_the_west.jpg/159px-Pershore_Abbey_from_the_west.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="3008" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Pershore Abbey from the west</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pershore_Abbey_in_winter_sun.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Western path to Pershore Abbey"><img alt="Western path to Pershore Abbey" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Pershore_Abbey_in_winter_sun.jpg/79px-Pershore_Abbey_in_winter_sun.jpg" decoding="async" width="79" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Pershore_Abbey_in_winter_sun.jpg/119px-Pershore_Abbey_in_winter_sun.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Pershore_Abbey_in_winter_sun.jpg/159px-Pershore_Abbey_in_winter_sun.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1982" data-file-height="2997" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Western path to Pershore Abbey</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pershore_Abbey_NE_window.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="North aisle, NE window, by Franz Mayer & Co., 1898"><img alt="North aisle, NE window, by Franz Mayer & Co., 1898" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Pershore_Abbey_NE_window.jpg/88px-Pershore_Abbey_NE_window.jpg" decoding="async" width="88" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Pershore_Abbey_NE_window.jpg/132px-Pershore_Abbey_NE_window.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Pershore_Abbey_NE_window.jpg/177px-Pershore_Abbey_NE_window.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2340" data-file-height="3177" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">North aisle, NE window, by <a href="/wiki/Franz_Mayer_%26_Co." class="mw-redirect" title="Franz Mayer & Co.">Franz Mayer & Co.</a>, 1898</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pershore_Abbey_Sculpure_-_geograph.org.uk_-_489424.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Abbey sculpture in the grounds"><img alt="Abbey sculpture in the grounds" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Pershore_Abbey_Sculpure_-_geograph.org.uk_-_489424.jpg/90px-Pershore_Abbey_Sculpure_-_geograph.org.uk_-_489424.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Pershore_Abbey_Sculpure_-_geograph.org.uk_-_489424.jpg/135px-Pershore_Abbey_Sculpure_-_geograph.org.uk_-_489424.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Pershore_Abbey_Sculpure_-_geograph.org.uk_-_489424.jpg/180px-Pershore_Abbey_Sculpure_-_geograph.org.uk_-_489424.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="640" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Abbey sculpture in the grounds</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:South_transept,_Pershore_Abbey_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1057546.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="South transept"><img alt="South transept" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/South_transept%2C_Pershore_Abbey_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1057546.jpg/80px-South_transept%2C_Pershore_Abbey_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1057546.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/South_transept%2C_Pershore_Abbey_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1057546.jpg/120px-South_transept%2C_Pershore_Abbey_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1057546.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/South_transept%2C_Pershore_Abbey_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1057546.jpg/160px-South_transept%2C_Pershore_Abbey_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1057546.jpg 2x" data-file-width="426" data-file-height="640" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">South transept</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pershore_Abbey&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A tradition at <a href="/wiki/Tewkesbury_Abbey" title="Tewkesbury Abbey">Tewkesbury Abbey</a>, only 10 miles from Pershore, also remembers a royal kinsman called Æthelweard (<i>Haylwardus</i>) as its patron as well as that of <a href="/wiki/Cranborne_Abbey" class="mw-redirect" title="Cranborne Abbey">Cranborne Abbey</a> (Dorset), of which Tewkesbury was a dependency.<sup id="cite_ref-World11-3_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-World11-3-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-reform347_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reform347-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The account, which places his floruit in the time of King Æthelred and Dunstan, is recorded in a late chronicle of that house, written in the 15th century, but may very well be based on older sources.<sup id="cite_ref-World11-3_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-World11-3-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-reform347_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reform347-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This Æthelweard is to be identified with the Æthelweard <i>Mæw</i> whose activities, including the foundation of Cranborne, are attested in sources closer to his day.<sup id="cite_ref-World11-3_16-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-World11-3-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Historian Jayakumar suggests that he may be the chronicler <a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelweard_(historian)" title="Æthelweard (historian)">Æthelweard</a>, ealdorman of the western shires, as both were royal kinsmen and in the Tewkesbury Chronicle, Cranborne is said to have been founded <i>in suo dominio</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-reform347_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reform347-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ann Williams, however, prefers to see them as separate persons.<sup id="cite_ref-World11-3_16-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-World11-3-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Citations">Citations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pershore_Abbey&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Sims94-6-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Sims94-6_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Sims94-6_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Sims94-6_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Sims94-6_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Sims94-6_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Sims-Williams, <i>Religion and literature</i>, pp. 94-6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=seek&query=S+70">S 70</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=seek&query=S+209">S 209</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-S1782-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-S1782_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-S1782_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.esawyer.org.uk/content/charter/1782.html">S 1782</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged December 2017">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Finberg, <i>Early charters</i>, pp. 153-66.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">John Leland, <i>Collectanea</i>, ed. Hearne, pp. 240-1.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-S786-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-S786_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-S786_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=seek&query=S+786">S 786</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Byrhtferth, <i>Life of Oswald</i>, p. 494 (ch. 8).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Byrhtferth, <i>Life of Oswald</i>, pp. 494-5 (ch. 9).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hudson, <i>Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis</i>, p. cciii.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Keynes, <i>The diplomas of King Æthelred 'the Unready' 978-1016</i>, pp. 98-100</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hudson, <i>Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis</i>, pp. cxcix-cciv</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Stokes72-3-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Stokes72-3_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Stokes72-3_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Stokes, "King Edgar's charter for Pershore, 972", pp. 72-3.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Gesta-iv.162-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Gesta-iv.162_14-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Gesta-iv.162_14-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">William of Malmesbury, <i>Gesta pontificum</i> IV, ch. 162, ed. and tr, Winterbottom and Thomson</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ReferenceA-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceA_15-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceA_15-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Ridyard, <i>The royal saints of Anglo-Saxon England</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-World11-3-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-World11-3_16-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-World11-3_16-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-World11-3_16-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-World11-3_16-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-World11-3_16-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Williams, <i>World before Domesday</i>, pp. 11-3.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-reform347-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-reform347_17-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-reform347_17-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-reform347_17-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Jayakumar, "Reform and retribution", p. 347.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Williams167-8-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Williams167-8_19-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Williams167-8_19-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Williams167-8_19-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Williams167-8_19-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Williams, "<i>Princeps Merciorum gentis</i>", pp. 167-8</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-LelandIter-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-LelandIter_20-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-LelandIter_20-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">"Oswaldus <i>primum instituit Canonicos seculares apud</i> Persore.<div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <i>Postea fuit ibidem chorus monachorum</i>.<div style="clear:both;" class=""></div><i>Rursus Canonici inducti</i>.<div style="clear:both;" class=""></div><i>Postea monachi per</i> Edgarum.<div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> Elferus <i>abstulit prædia monachis</i>.<div style="clear:both;" class=""></div>Odda <i>comes ejus filius restituit</i>.<div style="clear:both;" class=""></div><i>Monasterium conflagravit & à monachis desertum est</i>.<div style="clear:both;" class=""></div><i>Monachi</i> Westmonasterienses <i>prædia usurpabant</i>.<div style="clear:both;" class=""></div>Wada <i>comes attulit reliqias S.</i> Eadburgae, & <i>per</i> Oswaldum <i>episcopum</i> Fulbrightus <i>abbas inductus</i>.<div style="clear:both;" class=""></div><i>Olney</i>, alias <i>Alney</i>, about <i>Deorhirst</i> in <i>Glocester-shire. Deorhurst</i> yet remainith in <i>Glocestre-shire</i> as a Celle to <i>Twekesbiri</i>." John Leland, <i>Itinerarium</i>, ed. Hearne, vol. 5, p. 2.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Victoria-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Victoria_21-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Victoria_21-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Victoria_21-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Victoria_21-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Victoria_21-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Victoria_21-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Victoria_21-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Victoria_21-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Willis-Bund and Page, <i>The Victoria History of the County of Worcester</i>, vol. 2, pp. 127-136.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ODNBOdda-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ODNBOdda_22-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ODNBOdda_22-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ODNBOdda_22-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ODNBOdda_22-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ODNBOdda_22-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ODNBOdda_22-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Williams, "Odda, earl (<i>d</i>. 1056)"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=seek&query=S+932">S 932</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFWright1843" class="citation book cs1">Wright, Thomas, ed. (September 1843). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/camden-old-series/volume/three-chapters-of-letters-relating-to-the-suppression-of-monasteries/452A16E6B89E1ACD58DCB382F1D2BB68?sort=canonical.position%3Aasc&pageNum=4">"LX. Richard Beerly to Cromwell"</a>. <i>Three Chapters of Letters Relating to the Suppression of Monasteries</i>. Camden Society Old Series: Volume XXVI. Vol. 26. p. 133. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS2042169900009135">10.1017/S2042169900009135</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=LX.+Richard+Beerly+to+Cromwell&rft.btitle=Three+Chapters+of+Letters+Relating+to+the+Suppression+of+Monasteries&rft.series=Camden+Society+Old+Series%3A+Volume+XXVI&rft.pages=133&rft.date=1843-09&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1017%2FS2042169900009135&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cambridge.org%2Fcore%2Fjournals%2Fcamden-old-series%2Fvolume%2Fthree-chapters-of-letters-relating-to-the-suppression-of-monasteries%2F452A16E6B89E1ACD58DCB382F1D2BB68%3Fsort%3Dcanonical.position%253Aasc%26pageNum%3D4&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APershore+Abbey" class="Z3988"></span> This is an 1843 edition of original MSS in the <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a> (see also <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/camden-old-series/article/rho-volume-26-front-matter/9C3034FAA76DB66932F3F1AFD58E6476">Front cover</a>). See also <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oed.com/oed2/00152513">"Mouse, n. 2"</a>. <i>Oxford English Dictionary</i>. Vol. X (online 2nd ed.). 1989<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 March</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Mouse%2C+n.+2&rft.btitle=Oxford+English+Dictionary&rft.edition=online+2nd&rft.date=1989&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oed.com%2Foed2%2F00152513&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APershore+Abbey" class="Z3988"></span>, which cites this passage as <i>Lett. Suppress. Monast.</i> (Camden) 133. </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lit. 'Conferences with the fathers of <a href="/wiki/Wadi_El_Natrun" title="Wadi El Natrun">Scetis</a> in the desert'), written in around 420, usually translated as <i>Conferences with the <a href="/wiki/Desert_Fathers" title="Desert Fathers">Desert Fathers</a></i>.)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSt._BenedictVerheyen,Boniface_(trans)1949" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/St_Benedict" class="mw-redirect" title="St Benedict">St. Benedict</a>; Verheyen,Boniface (trans) (1949) [c540]. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://catholicfirst.com/thefaith/catholicclassics/benedict/benedict.html">"Chapter XLII: That No One Speak after Compline"</a>. <i>The Holy Rule of St. Benedict</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">8 March</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Chapter+XLII%3A+That+No+One+Speak+after+Compline&rft.btitle=The+Holy+Rule+of+St.+Benedict&rft.date=1949&rft.au=St.+Benedict&rft.au=Verheyen%2CBoniface+%28trans%29&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fcatholicfirst.com%2Fthefaith%2Fcatholicclassics%2Fbenedict%2Fbenedict.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APershore+Abbey" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAddisPress1961" class="citation book cs1">Addis, William E.; Press, Aeterna (1961). <i>A Catholic Dictionary</i>. Aeterna Press. p. 699. <q>St. Benedict in his rule requires his religious to assemble after supper and before Compline and listen to the 'Collations'—i.e. the <i>Conferences</i> (of <a href="/wiki/John_Cassian" title="John Cassian">Cassian</a>), the <a href="/wiki/Lives_of_the_Fathers" class="mw-redirect" title="Lives of the Fathers">Lives of the Fathers</a>, or other edifying books which were then read aloud by one of their number.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Catholic+Dictionary&rft.pages=699&rft.pub=Aeterna+Press&rft.date=1961&rft.aulast=Addis&rft.aufirst=William+E.&rft.au=Press%2C+Aeterna&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APershore+Abbey" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09152a.htm">"Lent"</a>, <i>Catholic Encyclopedia</i>. Retrieved 9 March 2019</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The term 'collation' in this context refers to the practice in <a href="/wiki/Benedictine" class="mw-redirect" title="Benedictine">Benedictine</a> monasteries, such as Pershore, of reading extracts from <a href="/wiki/John_Cassian" title="John Cassian">John Cassian</a>'s <i>Collationes patrum in Scetica eremo</i><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in the hours between the evening meal following <a href="/wiki/Vespers" title="Vespers">Vespers</a>, and before <a href="/wiki/Compline" title="Compline">Compline</a>. This was according to Chapter 42 of the <a href="/wiki/Rule_of_Saint_Benedict" title="Rule of Saint Benedict">Rule of Saint Benedict</a> written in the 6th century. All meals were to be eaten in daylight.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the 9th century the strict rules about <a href="/wiki/Fasting" title="Fasting">fasting</a> had become more relaxed, and the term 'collation' became more generally associated with the indulgence of a light meal, especially on fast days.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Since collation took place in the evening before <a href="/wiki/Compline" title="Compline">Compline</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Matins" title="Matins">Matins</a> finished at dawn (see <a href="/wiki/Canonical_hours#Daily_cycle_of_services" title="Canonical hours">Canonical hours</a>), it appears the monks were drinking all night long.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1057540">"Geograph:: Pershore Abbey (C) Philip Halling"</a>. <i>www.geograph.org.uk</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 April</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.geograph.org.uk&rft.atitle=Geograph%3A%3A+Pershore+Abbey+%28C%29+Philip+Halling&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.geograph.org.uk%2Fphoto%2F1057540&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APershore+Abbey" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Crawford-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Crawford_32-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wilson, Dr. M. and Crawford, Rev. K., <i>Pershore Abbey</i>, Official Abbey Guide, 2008, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-872-665-22-5" title="Special:BookSources/1-872-665-22-5">1-872-665-22-5</a>, pp.11-13</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHistoric_England1387027" class="citation web cs1"><a href="/wiki/Historic_England" title="Historic England">Historic England</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1387027?section=official-list-entry">"Abbey Church of Holy Cross with Saint Edburgha (1387027)"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/National_Heritage_List_for_England" title="National Heritage List for England">National Heritage List for England</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">5 June</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=National+Heritage+List+for+England&rft.atitle=Abbey+Church+of+Holy+Cross+with+Saint+Edburgha+%281387027%29&rft.au=Historic+England&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2FHistoricEngland.org.uk%2Flisting%2Fthe-list%2Flist-entry%2F1387027%3Fsection%3Dofficial-list-entry&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APershore+Abbey" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190308081547/https://jqheritage.co.uk/mr-james-barwell-obituary-notice/">"Mr. James Barwell – Obituary Notice"</a>. <i>Birmingham Weekly Mercury</i>. 2 April 1892. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://jqheritage.co.uk/mr-james-barwell-obituary-notice/">the original</a> on 8 March 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 March</span> 2018</span> – via Hosted at Jewellery Quarter Heritage.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Birmingham+Weekly+Mercury&rft.atitle=Mr.+James+Barwell+%E2%80%93+Obituary+Notice&rft.date=1892-04-02&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fjqheritage.co.uk%2Fmr-james-barwell-obituary-notice%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APershore+Abbey" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/File:James_Barwell.jpg" title="File:James Barwell.jpg">Barwell advertisement from 1897</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAndrews1901" class="citation book cs1">Andrews, Francis Baugh (1901). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/benedictineabbey00andruoft/page/n45"><i>The Benedictine abbey of SS. Mary, Peter, and Paul at Pershore, Worcestershire</i></a>. Birmingham and Pershore: Midland Educational Co. : Fearnside & Martin. p. 18n.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Benedictine+abbey+of+SS.+Mary%2C+Peter%2C+and+Paul+at+Pershore%2C+Worcestershire&rft.place=Birmingham+and+Pershore&rft.pages=18n&rft.pub=Midland+Educational+Co.+%3A+Fearnside+%26+Martin&rft.date=1901&rft.aulast=Andrews&rft.aufirst=Francis+Baugh&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fbenedictineabbey00andruoft%2Fpage%2Fn45&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APershore+Abbey" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Pershore_Bells-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Pershore_Bells_37-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Pershore_Bells_37-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170805234130/http://www.pershoreabbey.org.uk/bells.html">"Pershore Bells and the Pershore Abbey Society of Bell Ringers"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pershoreabbey.org.uk/bells.html">the original</a> on 5 August 2017<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 March</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Pershore+Bells+and+the+Pershore+Abbey+Society+of+Bell+Ringers&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pershoreabbey.org.uk%2Fbells.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APershore+Abbey" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrews190118-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAndrews190118_38-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAndrews190118_38-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAndrews1901">Andrews 1901</a>, p. 18.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The original inscription read simply "Prosperity to the Church of England" <sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAndrews190118_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrews190118-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wilson, Dr. M. and Crawford, Rev. K., <i>Pershore Abbey</i>, Official Abbey Guide, 2008, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-872-665-22-5" title="Special:BookSources/1-872-665-22-5">1-872-665-22-5</a>, p16</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-HeadsI-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-HeadsI_41-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HeadsI_41-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HeadsI_41-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HeadsI_41-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HeadsI_41-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HeadsI_41-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HeadsI_41-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HeadsI_41-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HeadsI_41-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HeadsI_41-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HeadsI_41-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HeadsI_41-11"><sup><i><b>l</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HeadsI_41-12"><sup><i><b>m</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Knowles, Brooke and London (2001), <i>The heads of religious houses: England & Wales, I. 940–1216</i>, pp. 58-9.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-HeadsII-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-HeadsII_42-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HeadsII_42-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HeadsII_42-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HeadsII_42-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HeadsII_42-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HeadsII_42-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HeadsII_42-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HeadsII_42-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HeadsII_42-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HeadsII_42-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Smith and London (2001), <i>The heads of religious houses: England & Wales, II. 1216–1377</i>, pp. 56-7.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002560/19400504/072/0005">"The Earliest Record"</a></span>. <i>Evesham Standard & West Midland Observer</i>. England. 4 May 1940<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">24 May</span> 2023</span> – via British Newspaper Archive.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Evesham+Standard+%26+West+Midland+Observer&rft.atitle=The+Earliest+Record&rft.date=1940-05-04&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk%2Fviewer%2Fbl%2F0002560%2F19400504%2F072%2F0005&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APershore+Abbey" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001945/18261105/029/0007">"The organ recently erected in Pershore Abbey Church…"</a></span>. <i>John Bull</i>. England. 5 November 1826<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">24 May</span> 2023</span> – via British Newspaper Archive.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=John+Bull&rft.atitle=The+organ+recently+erected+in+Pershore+Abbey+Church%E2%80%A6&rft.date=1826-11-05&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk%2Fviewer%2Fbl%2F0001945%2F18261105%2F029%2F0007&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APershore+Abbey" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002560/19400504/072/0005">"Restoration of Pershore Abbey Church"</a></span>. <i>Worcestershire Chronicle</i>. England. 8 June 1864<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">24 May</span> 2023</span> – via British Newspaper Archive.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Worcestershire+Chronicle&rft.atitle=Restoration+of+Pershore+Abbey+Church&rft.date=1864-06-08&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk%2Fviewer%2Fbl%2F0002560%2F19400504%2F072%2F0005&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APershore+Abbey" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000150/18730419/008/0004">"Pershore. New Organ"</a></span>. <i>Worcester Journal</i>. England. 19 April 1873<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">24 May</span> 2023</span> – via British Newspaper Archive.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Worcester+Journal&rft.atitle=Pershore.+New+Organ&rft.date=1873-04-19&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk%2Fviewer%2Fbl%2F0000150%2F18730419%2F008%2F0004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APershore+Abbey" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000320/19400517/037/0003">"Pershore Abbey's New Organ"</a></span>. <i>Gloucestershire Echo</i>. England. 17 May 1940<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">24 May</span> 2023</span> – via British Newspaper Archive.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Gloucestershire+Echo&rft.atitle=Pershore+Abbey%27s+New+Organ&rft.date=1940-05-17&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk%2Fviewer%2Fbl%2F0000320%2F19400517%2F037%2F0003&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APershore+Abbey" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A specification of the organ can be found on the <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N12480">National Pipe Organ Register</a></i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pershoreabbey.org.uk/2023/05/12/pershore-abbey-is-open-again-2/">"Pershore Abbey is Open Again"</a>. <i>Pershore Abbey</i>. 12 May 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">24 May</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Pershore+Abbey&rft.atitle=Pershore+Abbey+is+Open+Again&rft.date=2023-05-12&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pershoreabbey.org.uk%2F2023%2F05%2F12%2Fpershore-abbey-is-open-again-2%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APershore+Abbey" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-50">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000150/18680118/029/0008">"Deaths"</a></span>. <i>Worcester Journal</i>. England. 18 January 1868<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">24 May</span> 2023</span> – via British Newspaper Archive.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Worcester+Journal&rft.atitle=Deaths&rft.date=1868-01-18&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk%2Fviewer%2Fbl%2F0000150%2F18680118%2F029%2F0008&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APershore+Abbey" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003389/18680321/041/0002">"Pershore"</a></span>. <i>Bromsgrove & Droitwich Messenger</i>. England. 6 October 1951<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">24 May</span> 2023</span> – via British Newspaper Archive.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Bromsgrove+%26+Droitwich+Messenger&rft.atitle=Pershore&rft.date=1951-10-06&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk%2Fviewer%2Fbl%2F0003389%2F18680321%2F041%2F0002&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APershore+Abbey" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002217/19481127/101/0005">"Forty-Eight Years Organist"</a></span>. <i>Tewkesbury Register</i>. England. 27 November 1948<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">24 May</span> 2023</span> – via British Newspaper Archive.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Tewkesbury+Register&rft.atitle=Forty-Eight+Years+Organist&rft.date=1948-11-27&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk%2Fviewer%2Fbl%2F0002217%2F19481127%2F101%2F0005&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APershore+Abbey" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002217/19511006/048/0003">"Pershore. 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(2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/6497762/coverKing_Edgar_s_Charter.pdf">"King Edgar's Charter for Pershore (AD 972)"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Anglo-Saxon England</i>. <b>37</b>: 31–78. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2Fs0263675109990159">10.1017/s0263675109990159</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:159592800">159592800</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Anglo-Saxon+England&rft.atitle=King+Edgar%27s+Charter+for+Pershore+%28AD+972%29&rft.volume=37&rft.pages=31-78&rft.date=2008&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1017%2Fs0263675109990159&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A159592800%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Stokes&rft.aufirst=Peter+A.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fkclpure.kcl.ac.uk%2Fportal%2Ffiles%2F6497762%2FcoverKing_Edgar_s_Charter.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APershore+Abbey" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilliams1982" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/Ann_Williams_(historian)" title="Ann Williams (historian)">Williams, A.</a> (1982). 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<li>Fladbury Monastery</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanbury,_Worcestershire#Hanbury_Monastery" title="Hanbury, Worcestershire">Hanbury Monastery</a></li> <li>Kempsey Monastery</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Benedictine_abbeys_and_priories_in_medieval_England_and_Wales" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a 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style="width:1%">Independent<br />houses</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abbotsbury_Abbey" title="Abbotsbury Abbey">Abbotsbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priory_Church_of_St_Mary,_Abergavenny" title="Priory Church of St Mary, Abergavenny">Abergavenny</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abingdon_Abbey" title="Abingdon Abbey">Abingdon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alcester_Abbey" title="Alcester Abbey">Alcester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Athelney_Abbey" title="Athelney Abbey">Athelney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bardney_Abbey" title="Bardney Abbey">Bardney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bath_Abbey" title="Bath Abbey">Bath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_Abbey" title="Battle Abbey">Battle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bedford_Abbey" title="Bedford Abbey">Bedford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Birkenhead_Priory" title="Birkenhead Priory">Birkenhead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bradwell_Abbey" title="Bradwell Abbey">Bradwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Ladies_Priory" title="Black Ladies Priory">Brewood (Black Ladies)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buckfast_Abbey" title="Buckfast Abbey">Buckfast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burton_Abbey" title="Burton Abbey">Burton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bury_St_Edmunds_Abbey" title="Bury St Edmunds Abbey">Bury St Edmunds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canterbury_Cathedral" title="Canterbury Cathedral">Canterbury (Christ Church)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Augustine%27s_Abbey" title="St Augustine's Abbey">Canterbury (St Augustine's)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canwell_Priory" title="Canwell Priory">Canwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cerne_Abbey" title="Cerne Abbey">Cerne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chertsey_Abbey" title="Chertsey Abbey">Chertsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chester_Cathedral" title="Chester Cathedral">Chester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cholsey_Abbey" title="Cholsey Abbey">Cholsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._John%27s_Abbey,_Colchester" class="mw-redirect" title="St. John's Abbey, Colchester">Colchester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coventry_Cathedral" title="Coventry Cathedral">Coventry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crowland_Abbey" title="Crowland Abbey">Crowland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Durham_Cathedral_Priory" class="mw-redirect" title="Durham Cathedral Priory">Durham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ely_Cathedral" title="Ely Cathedral">Ely</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evesham_Abbey" title="Evesham Abbey">Evesham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eynsham_Abbey" title="Eynsham Abbey">Eynsham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farewell_Priory" title="Farewell Priory">Farewell Priory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faversham_Abbey" title="Faversham Abbey">Faversham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glastonbury_Abbey" title="Glastonbury Abbey">Glastonbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gloucester_Abbey" class="mw-redirect" title="Gloucester Abbey">Gloucester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humberston_Abbey" title="Humberston Abbey">Humberston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luffield_Abbey" title="Luffield Abbey">Luffield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malmesbury_Abbey" title="Malmesbury Abbey">Malmesbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milton_Abbey_School" title="Milton Abbey School">Milton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monk_Bretton_Priory" title="Monk Bretton Priory">Monk Bretton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muchelney_Abbey" title="Muchelney Abbey">Muchelney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Molycourt_Priory" title="Molycourt Priory">Molycourt</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Norwich_Cathedral_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Norwich Cathedral Priory (page does not exist)">Norwich (Holy Trinity)</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Pershore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peterborough_Cathedral" title="Peterborough Cathedral">Peterborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramsey_Abbey" title="Ramsey Abbey">Ramsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reading_Abbey" title="Reading Abbey">Reading</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Repton_Abbey" title="Repton Abbey">Repton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rochester_Cathedral" title="Rochester Cathedral">Rochester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Albans_Abbey" class="mw-redirect" title="St Albans Abbey">St Albans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Benet%27s_Abbey" title="St Benet's Abbey">St Benet of Hulme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandwell_Priory" title="Sandwell Priory">Sandwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selby_Abbey" title="Selby Abbey">Selby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sherborne_Abbey" title="Sherborne Abbey">Sherborne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_Abbey" title="Shrewsbury Abbey">Shrewsbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snelshall_Priory" title="Snelshall Priory">Snelshall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tavistock_Abbey" title="Tavistock Abbey">Tavistock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tewkesbury_Abbey" title="Tewkesbury Abbey">Tewkesbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thorney_Abbey" title="Thorney Abbey">Thorney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Upholland_Priory" class="mw-redirect" title="Upholland Priory">Upholland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walden_Abbey" title="Walden Abbey">Walden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" title="Westminster Abbey">Westminster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitby_Abbey" title="Whitby Abbey">Whitby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winchcombe_Abbey" title="Winchcombe Abbey">Winchcombe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyde_Abbey" title="Hyde Abbey">Winchester (New Minster)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winchester_Cathedral_Priory" title="Winchester Cathedral Priory">Winchester (St Swithun)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Worcester_Cathedral" title="Worcester Cathedral">Worcester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Abbey,_York" title="St Mary's Abbey, York">York (St Mary's)</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="3" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Croyland_Abbey_%26_Parish_Church_of_Crowland.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Croyland_Abbey_%26_Parish_Church_of_Crowland.JPG/150px-Croyland_Abbey_%26_Parish_Church_of_Crowland.JPG" decoding="async" width="150" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Croyland_Abbey_%26_Parish_Church_of_Crowland.JPG/225px-Croyland_Abbey_%26_Parish_Church_of_Crowland.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Croyland_Abbey_%26_Parish_Church_of_Crowland.JPG/300px-Croyland_Abbey_%26_Parish_Church_of_Crowland.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1944" data-file-height="2592" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Dependent<br />houses</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aldeby_Priory" title="Aldeby Priory">Aldeby</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alkborough_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alkborough Priory (page does not exist)">Alkborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alcester_Abbey" title="Alcester Abbey">Alcester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alvecote_Priory" title="Alvecote Priory">Alvecote</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beadlow_Priory" title="Beadlow Priory">Beadlow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bedemans_Berg_Priory" class="mw-redirect" title="Bedemans Berg Priory">Bedemans Berg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belvoir_Priory" title="Belvoir Priory">Belvoir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Binham_Priory" title="Binham Priory">Binham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Breedon_Priory" class="mw-redirect" title="Breedon Priory">Breedon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brecon_Cathedral" title="Brecon Cathedral">Brecon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_James%27_Priory,_Bristol" title="St James' Priory, Bristol">Bristol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bromfield_Priory" title="Bromfield Priory">Bromfield</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cardiff_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cardiff Priory (page does not exist)">Cardiff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cardigan_Priory" title="Cardigan Priory">Cardigan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cranborne_Priory" title="Cranborne Priory">Cranborne</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Darenth_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Darenth Priory (page does not exist)">Darenth</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Deeping_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Deeping Priory (page does not exist)">Deeping</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dover_Priory" title="Dover Priory">Dover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dunster_Priory" title="Dunster Priory">Dunster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colne_Priory" title="Colne Priory">Earls Colne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ewenny_Priory" title="Ewenny Priory">Ewenny</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ewyas_Harold_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ewyas Harold Priory (page does not exist)">Ewyas Harold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exeter_Priory" class="mw-redirect" title="Exeter Priory">Exeter</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Farne_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Farne Priory (page does not exist)">Farne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Felixstowe_Priory" class="mw-redirect" title="Felixstowe Priory">Felixstowe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finchale_Priory" title="Finchale Priory">Finchale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freiston_Priory" title="Freiston Priory">Freiston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Malvern_Priory" title="Great Malvern Priory">Great Malvern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hatfield_Peverel_Priory" title="Hatfield Peverel Priory">Hatfield Peverel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandtoft_Priory" title="Sandtoft Priory">Henes (Sandtoft)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Guthlac%27s_Priory" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Guthlac's Priory">Hereford</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hertford_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hertford Priory (page does not exist)">Hertford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lindisfarne" title="Lindisfarne">Holy Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horton_Priory" title="Horton Priory">Horton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hoxne_Priory" title="Hoxne Priory">Hoxne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hurley_Priory" title="Hurley Priory">Hurley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monkwearmouth%E2%80%93Jarrow_Abbey" title="Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey">Jarrow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kidwelly_Priory" title="Kidwelly Priory">Kidwelly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kilpeck_Priory" title="Kilpeck Priory">Kilpeck </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Mead_Priory" title="King's Mead Priory">King's Mead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benedictine_Priory,_King%27s_Lynn" title="Benedictine Priory, King's Lynn">Kings Lynn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lammana_Priory" title="Lammana Priory">Lammana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Langley_Priory" title="Langley Priory">Langley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priory_Church,_Leominster" title="Priory Church, Leominster">Leominster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Stanley_Priory" title="Leonard Stanley Priory">Leonard Stanley</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_Magdalen_Priory,_Lincoln&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mary Magdalen Priory, Lincoln (page does not exist)">Lincoln</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Malvern_Priory" title="Little Malvern Priory">Little Malvern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Littlemore_Priory" class="mw-redirect" title="Littlemore Priory">Littlemore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lytham_Priory" title="Lytham Priory">Lytham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middlesbrough_Priory" title="Middlesbrough Priory">Middlesbrough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Peter%27s_Church,_Monkwearmouth" title="St Peter's Church, Monkwearmouth">Monkwearmouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morville_Priory" title="Morville Priory">Morville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._Leonard%27s_Priory,_Norwich" title="St. Leonard's Priory, Norwich">Norwich (St Leonard's)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canterbury_College,_Oxford" title="Canterbury College, Oxford">Oxford (of Canterbury)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Durham_College,_Oxford" title="Durham College, Oxford">Oxford (of Durham)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gloucester_College,_Oxford" title="Gloucester College, Oxford">Oxford (of Gloucester)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penwortham_Priory" title="Penwortham Priory">Penwortham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pilton_Priory" class="mw-redirect" title="Pilton Priory">Pilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Redbourne_Priory" class="mw-redirect" title="Redbourne Priory">Redbourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheen_Priory" title="Sheen Priory">Richmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rumburgh_Priory" title="Rumburgh Priory">Rumburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Bees_Priory" title="St Bees Priory">St Bees</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Ives_Priory" title="St Ives Priory">St Ives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tresco_Priory" title="Tresco Priory">Scilly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snaith_Priory" title="Snaith Priory">Snaith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snape_Priory" title="Snape Priory">Snape</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stamford_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stamford Priory (page does not exist)">Stamford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Studley_Priory,_Oxfordshire" title="Studley Priory, Oxfordshire">Studley (Oxfordshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Studley_Priory,_Warwickshire" title="Studley Priory, Warwickshire">Studley (Warwickshire)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tickhill_Friary" title="Tickhill Friary">Tickhill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tynemouth_Castle_and_Priory" class="mw-redirect" title="Tynemouth Castle and Priory">Tynemouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wallingford_Priory" title="Wallingford Priory">Wallingford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Church,_Westbury_on_Trym" title="Holy Trinity Church, Westbury on Trym">Westbury-on-Trym</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wetheral_Priory_Gatehouse" title="Wetheral Priory Gatehouse">Wetheral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wymondham_Abbey" title="Wymondham Abbey">Wymondham</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yarmouth_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yarmouth Priory (page does not exist)">Yarmouth</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Alien_priory" title="Alien priory">Alien<br />priories</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Allerton_Mauleverer_Priory" title="Allerton Mauleverer Priory">Allerton Mauleverer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andover_Priory" title="Andover Priory">Andover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andwell_Priory" title="Andwell Priory">Andwell</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Appuldurcombe_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Appuldurcombe Priory (page does not exist)">Appuldurcombe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arundel_Priory" title="Arundel Priory">Arundel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astley_Priory" title="Astley Priory">Astley </a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aston_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aston Priory (page does not exist)">Aston Priors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atherington_Priory" class="mw-redirect" title="Atherington Priory">Atherington </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avebury_Priory" title="Avebury Priory">Avebury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Axmouth_Priory" class="mw-redirect" title="Axmouth Priory">Axmouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blyth_Priory" title="Blyth Priory">Blyth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boxgrove_Priory" title="Boxgrove Priory">Boxgrove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brimpsfield_Priory" title="Brimpsfield Priory">Brimpsfield</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Burstall_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Burstall Priory (page does not exist)">Burstall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burwell_Priory" title="Burwell Priory">Burwell</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Caldy_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Caldy Priory (page does not exist)">Caldy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carisbrooke_Priory" title="Carisbrooke Priory">Carisbrooke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Chepstow" class="mw-redirect" title="St Mary's Church, Chepstow">Chepstow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clatford_Priory" title="Clatford Priory">Clatford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cogges#Benedictine_priory" title="Cogges">Cogges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corsham_Priory" class="mw-redirect" title="Corsham Priory">Corsham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Covenham_Priory" title="Covenham Priory">Covenham</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cowick_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cowick Priory (page does not exist)">Cowick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Creeting_St._Mary_Priory" class="mw-redirect" title="Creeting St. Mary Priory">Creeting (St. Mary)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Creeting_St._Olave_Priory" class="mw-redirect" title="Creeting St. Olave Priory">Creeting (St. Olave)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Debden_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Debden Priory (page does not exist)">Debden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deerhurst_Abbey" class="mw-redirect" title="Deerhurst Abbey">Deerhurst</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dunwich_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dunwich Priory (page does not exist)">Dunwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ecclesfield_Priory" title="Ecclesfield Priory">Ecclesfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edith_Weston_Priory" title="Edith Weston Priory">Edith Weston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ellingham_Priory" title="Ellingham Priory">Ellingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Everdon_Priory" title="Everdon Priory">Everdon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eye_Priory" title="Eye Priory">Eye</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folkestone_Priory" title="Folkestone Priory">Folkestone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frampton_Priory" title="Frampton Priory">Frampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goldcliff_Priory" title="Goldcliff Priory">Goldcliff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grovebury_Priory" title="Grovebury Priory">Grovebury</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hamble_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hamble Priory (page does not exist)">Hamble</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Harmondsworth_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Harmondsworth Priory (page does not exist)">Harmondsworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hatfield_Regis_Priory" title="Hatfield Regis Priory">Hatfield Regis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haugham_Priory" title="Haugham Priory">Haugham</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hayling_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hayling Priory (page does not exist)">Hayling</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Headley_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Headley Priory (page does not exist)">Headley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hinckley_Priory" title="Hinckley Priory">Hinckley</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holbeck_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Holbeck Priory (page does not exist)">Holbeck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horsham_St._Faith_Priory" title="Horsham St. Faith Priory">Horsham St Faith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horsley_Priory" title="Horsley Priory">Horsley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lancaster_Priory" title="Lancaster Priory">Lancaster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lapley_Priory" title="Lapley Priory">Lapley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewisham_Priory" title="Lewisham Priory">Lewisham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isleham_Priory_Church" title="Isleham Priory Church">Isleham</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Livers_Ocle_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Livers Ocle Priory (page does not exist)">Livers Ocle</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Llangennith_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" 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title="Swavesey Priory">Swavesey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Takeley_Priory" title="Takeley Priory">Takeley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Throwley_Priory" title="Throwley Priory">Throwley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tickford_Priory" title="Tickford Priory">Tickford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Titley_Priory" title="Titley Priory">Titley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toft_Monks_Priory" title="Toft Monks Priory">Toft Monks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Totnes_Priory" title="Totnes Priory">Totnes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tutbury_Priory" title="Tutbury Priory">Tutbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tywardreath_Priory" class="mw-redirect" title="Tywardreath Priory">Tywardreath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Upavon_Priory" title="Upavon Priory">Upavon</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ware_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ware Priory (page does not exist)">Ware</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wareham_Priory" title="Wareham Priory">Wareham</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Warminghurst_Grange&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Warminghurst Grange (page does not exist)">Warminghurst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warmington_Priory" title="Warmington Priory">Warmington</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wath_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wath Priory (page does not exist)">Wath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weedon_Beck_Priory" title="Weedon Beck Priory">Weedon Beck</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weedon_Lois_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Weedon Lois Priory (page does not exist)">Weedon Lois</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Mersea_Priory" title="West Mersea Priory">West Mersea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilsford_Priory" title="Wilsford Priory">Wilsford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wing_Priory" title="Wing Priory">Wing</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Winghale_Priory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Winghale Priory (page does not exist)">Winghale</a></li> <li><a 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Province of Canterbury</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bath_Abbey" title="Bath Abbey">Bath Abbey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Church,_Bedford" title="St Paul's Church, Bedford">St Paul's Church, Bedford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Martin_in_the_Bull_Ring" title="St Martin in the Bull Ring">St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Botolph%27s_Church,_Boston" title="St Botolph's Church, Boston">St Botolph's Church, Boston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Mary_Redcliffe" title="St Mary Redcliffe">St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Bury_St_Edmunds" title="St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds">St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_St_Mary_the_Great,_Cambridge" title="Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge">Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheltenham_Minster,_St_Mary%27s" title="Cheltenham Minster, St Mary's">Cheltenham Minster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_St_Mary_and_All_Saints,_Chesterfield" title="Church of St Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield">Church of St Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christchurch_Priory" title="Christchurch Priory">Christchurch Priory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Church,_Coventry" title="Holy Trinity Church, Coventry">Holy Trinity Church, Coventry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_St_John_the_Baptist,_Frome" title="Church of St John the Baptist, Frome">Church of St John the Baptist, Frome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Wulfram%27s_Church,_Grantham" title="St Wulfram's Church, Grantham">St Wulfram's Church, Grantham</a></li> <li><a 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title="Romsey Abbey">Romsey Abbey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Andrew%27s_Church,_Rugby" title="St Andrew's Church, Rugby">St Andrew's Church, Rugby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Mary_the_Virgin,_Saffron_Walden" title="St Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden">St Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Chad%27s_Church,_Shrewsbury" title="St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury">St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Trinity,_Stratford-upon-Avon" title="Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon">Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sherborne_Abbey" title="Sherborne Abbey">Sherborne Abbey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_Abbey" title="Shrewsbury Abbey">Shrewsbury Abbey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Mary_Magdalene,_Taunton" class="mw-redirect" title="St Mary Magdalene, Taunton">St Mary Magdalene, Taunton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tewkesbury_Abbey" title="Tewkesbury Abbey">Tewkesbury Abbey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waltham_Abbey_Church" title="Waltham Abbey Church">Waltham Abbey Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collegiate_Church_of_St_Mary,_Warwick" title="Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick">Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wimborne_Minster_(church)" title="Wimborne Minster (church)">Wimborne Minster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Peter%27s_Collegiate_Church" title="St Peter's Collegiate Church">St Peter's Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Province of York</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beverley_Minster" title="Beverley Minster">Beverley Minster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolton_Priory" title="Bolton Priory">Bolton Priory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bridlington_Priory" title="Bridlington Priory">Bridlington Priory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cartmel_Priory" title="Cartmel Priory">Cartmel Priory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doncaster_Minster" title="Doncaster Minster">Doncaster Minster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halifax_Minster" title="Halifax Minster">Halifax Minster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Peter%27s_Church,_Harrogate" title="St Peter's Church, Harrogate">St Peter's Church, Harrogate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hexham_Abbey" title="Hexham Abbey">Hexham Abbey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hull_Minster" title="Hull Minster">Hull Minster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kendal_Parish_Church" title="Kendal Parish Church">Kendal Parish Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_St_Andrew,_Kildwick" title="Church of St Andrew, Kildwick">Church of St Andrew, Kildwick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lancaster_Priory" title="Lancaster Priory">Lancaster Priory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leeds_Minster" title="Leeds Minster">Leeds Minster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Our_Lady_and_Saint_Nicholas,_Liverpool" title="Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas, Liverpool">Liverpool Parish Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Nantwich" title="St Mary's Church, Nantwich">St Mary's Church, Nantwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_St_Mary_Magdalene,_Newark-on-Trent" class="mw-redirect" title="Church of St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent">Church of St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Nottingham" title="St Mary's Church, Nottingham">St Mary's Church, Nottingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_St_Peter_and_St_Paul,_Ormskirk" title="Church of St Peter and St Paul, Ormskirk">Church of St Peter and St Paul, Ormskirk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rotherham_Minster" title="Rotherham Minster">Rotherham Minster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selby_Abbey" title="Selby Abbey">Selby Abbey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Church,_Southport" title="Holy Trinity Church, Southport">Holy Trinity Church, Southport</a></li> <li><a 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