June 25th, 2024
Broadway - Snowshill Manor - Stanway House - Stanway - Hailes - Toddington - Dumbleton - Pershore Abbey
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Stanway House
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Stanway House
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White Swan
Stanway House |
Gold Fish
Stanway House |
White Swan
Stanway House |
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Stanway House Fountain
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'Saint James the Great, St Peter and Saint John
the Evangelist' 1897
St Peter's Church, Stanway |
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Medieval Wall Paintings
Hailes Church |
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St
Andrew's Church, Toddington
Church Micro 10448 |
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1. 'Building the temple' in memory of William Hunt
d.1913 by Clayton & Bell
2. 'St Andrew, St Patrickand St Leonard' in memory of Hugh Andrews d.1926 by James Powell & Sons of Whitefriers 3. 'St John writes the gospel, Charge to Peter and St Nicholas stills the storm' in memory of Hugh Andrews d.1926 by James Powell & Sons 4. East Window by Hardman & Co., 1874 St Andrew's Church, Toddington |
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Wall Monument to Thomas Charles Leigh 6th Lord
Viscount Tracy d.1792
St Andrew's Church, Toddington |
fragments inside a carved, trefoil-headed stone
canopy niche designed by Victorian architect George Edmund Street.
St Andrew's Church, Toddington |
Memorial for Major The Hon. Algernon Henry Charles
Hanbury-Tracy and his son, Major Richard Algernon Frederick Hanbury-Tracy
(6th Baron Sudeley).
St Andrew's Church, Toddington |
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Marble monument to Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Lord
Sudeley of Toddington (d. 1858) and his wife. By Sculptor J.C.Louch,
1872
St Andrew's Church, Toddington |
Marble monument to Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Lord
Sudeley of Toddington (d. 1858) and his wife. By Sculptor J.C.Louch,
1872
St Andrew's Church, Toddington |
Effigy
St Andrew's Church, Toddington |
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St
Peter's Church,
Dumbleton Church Micro 4436 |
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Wall Monument to Sir Charles Percy d.1628, his
wife Dorothy, and their daughter Anne,
St Peter's Church, Dumbleton |
Vertical Bronze Sun Dial - Waste Me Not
St Peter's Church, Dumbleton |
Wall Monument to Sir Charles Percy d.1628 and his
wife
St Peter's Church, Dumbleton |
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1. Hatchment to John Somers Cocks, 2nd Earl Somers
(1788–1852)
2. 'Nativity' in memory of Anne Elizabeth Kettlewell by Hardman & Co., 1868 3. 'Adoration of Magi' in memory of Rev. Collins Ashwin d.1938 by Harry Stammers, 1947 4. Crowds Gather, Mary Magdalene at the Foot of the Cross and St Henry with St William' in memory of Henry William Eyres by Hardman & Co., 1881 5. The Cocks Family Arms Funerary Hatchment St Peter's Church, Dumbleton |
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Site of Wings
for Victory aircraft disaster, 1943
Wellington X3704 had departed Stratford upon Avon at 1825 on 29 May 1943 to participate in a "Wings for Victory" flypast over Pershore Tragically the aircraft suffered catastrophic in-flight structural failure, losing a wing before it crashed behind the Star Hotel. All on board were killed The Cooperage, Pershore |
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The
Abbey Church of the Holy Cross,
Pershore Church Micro 11989 |
The
Abbey Church of the Holy Cross,
Pershore |
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C18th hatchment belongs to the Surman family
The Abbey Church of the Holy Cross, Pershore |
Painted Pipe Organ by Nicholson of Malvern, 1872
The Abbey Church of the Holy Cross, Pershore |
C18th hatchment belongs to the Packer family
The Abbey Church of the Holy Cross, Pershore |
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1. Window in memory of Rev. R.E. Bartle, Vicar
from 1866-1873
2. 'Christ the consoler' by Mayer and Co, 1879 3. 'Dorcas' by Clayton & Bell, 1869 4. 'Roman Centurion by Clayton & Bell, 1873 5. 'The Raising of Jairus' Daughter' and 'Suffer Little Children' by Clayton & Bell, 1873 6. 'Jesus with Mary and Martha' by Lavers, Barraud & Westlake, 1879 The Abbey Church of the Holy Cross, Pershore |
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1. 'The Annunciation' The John Hilditch Evans
memorial window
by Charles Eamer Kempe, 1888 2. 'History of the Abbey from pre-Conquest to about 1300' in memory of Churchwarden Edwin Ball 1. King Ethelred giveth Pershore to Oswald; 2. Beornoth gaineth charter from Coenwulf; 3. The Danish Fury; 4. Ye Benedictine Rule brought in; 5. Abbot Foldbriht cometh to life; 6. Alphere (Alderman) plundereth Abbey; 7. Eadburgh chooseth the religious life; 8. Eadburgh serveth her fellows; 9. Egilwada bringeth ye Saint to Pershore; 10. Ye Saint worketh miracles; 11. King Edgar giveth a charter; 12. Æthelred and Ælfleda, benefactors; 13. Suuegen is defeated; 14. Earl Odda becometh monk. The upper part of the window is filled with the figures of King Canute, King Edward I, King Henry III, Bishop Brithray and Urso d’Abitot. by John Hardman & Co., 1870 3. 'History of the Abbey from the C13th to the C19th' in memory of Churchwarden Edwin Ball 1, Ye Confessor giveth lands to Westiminster; 2. Harley is made Knight in Jerusalem; 3. Abbot Guido is deprived for simony; 4. Fire breaketh out on St Urban’s day; 5. Abbot Elerius preacheth Crusade to Llewellyn; 6. Fire burneth ye Church and ye Charters; 7. King Edward visiteth Pershore; 8. William de Beauchamp, benefactor, dies; 9. Ye Abbot Upton is drowned; 10. Monastery is dissolved; 11. Queen Elizabeth passeth by; 12. King Charles breaketh down ye bridge; 13. Ye Fair holden in ye Churchard; 14. Ye Church of Holy Cross restored. by John Hardman & Co., 1870 The Abbey Church of the Holy Cross, Pershore |
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1. St Matthew, by Clayton & Bell.
2. 'Scenes from the life of St Peter' by Mayer & Co, 1898 3. 'St Luke the Evangelist' by Clayton and Bell The Abbey Church of the Holy Cross, Pershore |
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The Abbot's Tomb
unknown C14th priest The Abbey Church of the Holy Cross, Pershore |
Tomb of Thomas Haselwood d.1624,
between his wife Elizabeth Dineley d.1624 and their son Francis d.1665 The Abbey Church of the Holy Cross, Pershore |
The Crusader's Tomb
The Abbey Church of the Holy Cross, Pershore |
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Victorian Wall Painting of Christ in Majesty
The Abbey Church of the Holy Cross, Pershore |
Wall Monument to
Thomas Haselwood d.1624 The Abbey Church of the Holy Cross, Pershore |
Victorian Wall Painting of St Peter
The Abbey Church of the Holy Cross, Pershore |
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Pershore Warhorse memorial sculpture by blacksmith
Steven Cooper, 2019
The sculpture is made from recycled horseshoes |
'Garden God'
by Peter Inchbald. (known locally as the Moon Goddess). The sculpture was moved to its present location a part of the Millennium celebrations Pershore |
Pershore Warhorse memorial sculpture by blacksmith
Steven Cooper, 2019
The sculpture is made from recycled horseshoes |