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Bell's Cathedrals

The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with Some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire

9781465542557
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Library of Alexandria
Overview
H. J. L. J. Massé Photo. D. Gwynne. TEWKESBURY ABBEY, FROM THE EAST.ToList. BY This stone, of which a facsimile has been erected in this Saxon chapel, was for many years assumed to refer to the larger church at Deerhurst, but as soon as the smaller chapel was discovered, it was seen that the inscription could only refer to that building. The finding of a second stone, the dedication slab of an altar, in a chimney-stack, also seemed to confirm the idea that the building, with its nave, its chancel arch, and its chancel, was the chapel dedicated in 1056 by Earl Odda