Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . Kell & Son, Holborn, TEWKESBURY. Beauchamp Chantry. Tewkesbury. 39 Tower, 132 feet high and 46 feet square. To get an idea of the church as it was when it was first finished, onemust reduce it to great simplicity. Outside, it must have been more statelythan it is now, with a high-pitched roof, plain round-headed windowsthroughout, a much plainer apse, and within the great arch at the W. endwe may suppose a double tier of simple windows over a round-headeddoor. On the tower was a wooden spire, which fell down on Easte
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . Kell & Son, Holborn, TEWKESBURY. Beauchamp Chantry. Tewkesbury. 39 Tower, 132 feet high and 46 feet square. To get an idea of the church as it was when it was first finished, onemust reduce it to great simplicity. Outside, it must have been more statelythan it is now, with a high-pitched roof, plain round-headed windowsthroughout, a much plainer apse, and within the great arch at the W. endwe may suppose a double tier of simple windows over a round-headeddoor. On the tower was a wooden spire, which fell down on Easter Day,March 26th, 1559 Lastly, there was a bell tower to the , built before1224 and destroyed in 1817. Inside, the whole effect must have been verydifferent. There were no rich groining and traceried windows; but thenave was loftier, with an open-timbered roof (or, perhaps flat ceiling), andthe tower open to form a lantern; chancel very severe, with fittings of thesimplest The changes by which it became what we see it took place gradually inthe 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. (In the 12th the monastery buildingshad to be remodelled after the Great Fire of 1178, from which the churchescaped with some scorching, but needed no important rebuilding.) In1237 the Chapel of St. Nicholas was built by Abbot Sipton; perhapsconsecrated two years later (1239). In 1246 the Chapel of S. Eustatiuswas built by Prior Henry de Banbury ; possibly as the nave of a parochiallady chapel. It seems soon to have become dilapidated, and was removedin the following century. 4o Transactions for the Year1902.
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