. Vanishing England . dsflocking lo la)- their offerings there ; and riches pouredinto the treasury of the monks, who made great additions 1 The Builder^ March 6, 1909. 224 VANISHING ENGLAND to their house, and reared noble buildings. Little is lefof its former grandeur. You can discover part of thepiers of the great central tower, the cloister arch ofDecorated work of great beauty erected in 1317, and the abbey fishponds. The belltower is one of the gloriesof Evesham. It was builtby the last abbot, AbbotLichfield, and was notquite completed before thedestruction of the greatabbey church adjac
. Vanishing England . dsflocking lo la)- their offerings there ; and riches pouredinto the treasury of the monks, who made great additions 1 The Builder^ March 6, 1909. 224 VANISHING ENGLAND to their house, and reared noble buildings. Little is lefof its former grandeur. You can discover part of thepiers of the great central tower, the cloister arch ofDecorated work of great beauty erected in 1317, and the abbey fishponds. The belltower is one of the gloriesof Evesham. It was builtby the last abbot, AbbotLichfield, and was notquite completed before thedestruction of the greatabbey church adjacent toit. It is a grand specimenof Perpendicular architec-ture. At the corner of theMarket Place there is apicturesque old house withgable and carved barge-boards and timber-framedarch, and we see the oldNorman gateway namedAbbot Reginalds Gate-way, after the name of itsbuilder, who also erectedpart of the wall enclosingthe monastic timber-framed structurenow stretches across thearcade, but a recent resto-. Fifteenth-century House,Market Place, Evesham ration has exposed the Norman columns which support thearch. The Church House, always an interesting buildingin old towns and villages, wherein church ales and semi-ecclesiastical functions took place, has been under the arch we see the two churches in onechurchyard—All Saints and St. Laurence. The formerhas some Norman work at the inner door of the porch,but its main construction is Decorated and Perpendicular.
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