. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. es, dated 1516, giving all thepatronage in the hands of the bishop., there is the entry:—Prcbcndac sive porciones ds Overhdtte et Nethirhalle inecclesid collsgiata dc Ledbury. The name, at any rate, of collegiate had therefore survived from 1401, if nothingelse. Bishop Skipp (1539-1552) appointed his nephew (orother relative), Richard Skipp, to the prebend of Xether-hall : and somehow the prebend became Richardsprivate property ! For he demised it by will. Thesame must have happened to the prebend of Overhall,for it also
. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. es, dated 1516, giving all thepatronage in the hands of the bishop., there is the entry:—Prcbcndac sive porciones ds Overhdtte et Nethirhalle inecclesid collsgiata dc Ledbury. The name, at any rate, of collegiate had therefore survived from 1401, if nothingelse. Bishop Skipp (1539-1552) appointed his nephew (orother relative), Richard Skipp, to the prebend of Xether-hall : and somehow the prebend became Richardsprivate property ! For he demised it by will. Thesame must have happened to the prebend of Overhall,for it also, somehow, passed into the private possession ofThomas Denton. Bishop Scory (1559-1585) made a very bad bargain withQueen Elizabeth, exchanging several of the episcopalmanors for some almost worthless property. In thisexchange the bishops manor of Ledbury passed to thecrown. The law-suit abstracted in the transcript Here-ford, no. 124 (Attorney-General v. Pearshall) shows thatin 1598-9 the queen claimed that the two prebendsought to have passed to her with the f 63 THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CHURCH OFST. MICHAEL, LEDBURY. By Spencer H. Bickham. AT least three churches have existed on the site of thepresent one. There stood on a portion of the siteof the present church, how far back I cannot tell butanterior to the advent of Norman architecture in thiscountry, a church of which the only remains are a brickwall 5 feet in thickness now buried under the north pierarcade of the nave, the length being as great or nearlyas great as the present nave. I have seen the wall andpossess a plan of it. At the time of the Conquest this had been replaced bya church of Norman architecture, the remains of whichare to be found in the bases of round pillars in the northpier arcade—in a low respond near the pulpit showingboth the termination of the pier arcade and of the prob-ably groined roof of the aisle—in the jamb of an ancientdoor on the south side of the chancel; and it has beensugg
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