06.

PREFACE.

My heartiest thanks are here expressed to all who have helped me in
any way during the compiling of this book--to Sir Charles Isham, of
Lamport, for allowing me the use of his _Registrum Theokusburiae_ for
several months, and for permission to reproduce two pages from it; to
Mr. J.T. Micklethwaite for permission to make use of his paper on
_Saxon Churches_ published in the Journal of the Archaeological
Institute, and to the Institute for leave to reproduce the three
blocks of Deerhurst; to Mr. W.H. St. John Hope for several
suggestions; to Mr. A.H. Hughes, of Llandudno, Dr. Oscar Clark, and
Mr. R.W. Dugdale, of Gloucester, for so liberally supplementing my own
store of photographs; to Mr. S. Browett, of Tewkesbury, for the loan
of the wood block on page 17; and, lastly, to Mr. W.G. Bannister, the
sacristan of the Abbey, who placed his thorough knowledge of the
building, its records, and its heraldry, together with the whole of
his valuable MS. notes on these points, unreservedly at my disposal.

H.J.L.J.M.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. History of the Foundation and Fabric of the Abbey Church,
and Some Account of its Benefactors 3

II. The Exterior 29
North Porch 30
The Tower 30
The West Front 32
The South Side 34
The Cloisters 34
The Lady Chapel 37

III. The Interior 39
The Nave 39
The Roof and its Bosses 42
The Font 43
The Lectern 44
The Pulpit 44
The Screen 45
The Great West Window 46
The Aisles 47