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    Evesham
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    Evesham

    By E. H. (Edmund Hort) New

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Evesham - E. H. (Edmund Hort) New

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Evesham, by Edmund H. New

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Evesham

      Author: Edmund H. New

      Release Date: October 14, 2004 [EBook #13754]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EVESHAM ***

      Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Asad Razzaki and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team.

      EVESHAM

      EVESHAM

      WRITTEN AND

      ILLUSTRATED BY

      EDMUND H. NEW

      LONDON: J.M. DENT & CO.

      29 BEDFORD STREET

      NEW YORK: E.P. DUTTON CO.

      MDCCCCIV

      DEDICATED

      TO THE MEMORY OF

      H.N.

      1820-1893

      D.N.

      1834-1901

      NOTE

      For the historical matter contained in the following pages the writer is indebted mainly to George May's admirable history of the town issued in 1845, a book which, since its publication, has been the acknowledged authority on local history.

      To Mr. Oswald Knapp his thanks are especially due not only for permission to make use of the series of articles, founded on the monastic chronicles, which appeared some years ago in the Evesham Journal, most of them under the title of Evesham Episodes, but also for much generous help and criticism.

      CONTENTS

      I.    INTRODUCTION

      II.   EVESHAM AND THE VALE

      III.  THE ABBEY

      1. THE FOUNDING OF THE ABBEY

      2. THE ABBEY AFTER THE CONQUEST.

      3. THE DISSOLUTION.

      IV.   THE REMAINS OF THE ABBEY

      V.    THE PARISH CHURCHES

      VI.   THE TOWN—INCLUDING BENGEWORTH AND GREEN HILL

      VII.  THE BATTLE OF EVESHAM

      VIII. CAVALIERS AND ROUNDHEADS

      IX.   THE RIVER

      X.    THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      Bridge Street

      Evesham and Bredon Hill, from the Parks

      The Bell Tower

      The Gatehouse and Almonry

      Abbot Reginald's Gateway

      In the Market Place

      High Street

      The Bell Tower, from Bengeworth

      St. Egwin's, Honeybourne

      Evesham

      CHAPTER I

      INTRODUCTION

      Yonder lies our ... village—Art and Grace are less and less:

      Science grows and Beauty dwindles—roofs of slated hideousness!

      —LOCKSLEY HALL, SIXTY YEARS AFTER

      Those who love with a deep reverence the work of their forefathers, whether because of the character and beauty of their handiwork, or from the historical associations which are indissolubly connected with it, cannot but regard with pain and abhorrence any cause which tends towards the demolition or destruction of the monuments of the past. To these it is a significant and distressing fact that hardly any modern English buildings or streets possess the qualities which give the value and charm to the old cities, towns, and villages of which we are the grateful inheritors. If any reader is inclined to doubt the truth of this statement, or to consider the sentiment expressed extravagant or groundless, let him consider the difference between the old towns and the new.

      Evesham provides a typical and sufficiently striking instance of the contrasted methods and results. Here there is hardly an old house which has not a local and individual character. Many of them may be plain, severely plain, some possibly ugly; but in each can be read by all who will, a distinct and separate thought, or series of thoughts, connecting the dwelling with its builders and owners, and with the soil out of which it has sprung.

      As the varying undulations of the face of the country tell a plain tale to the geologist, so the shape and materials of human habitations tell their story to the student of architecture and the history of man.

      The poet Wordsworth pointed out that one of the great charms of the Lake country lay in the way in which the dwellings sprang out of the hill side, as if a natural growth born of the requirements of the peasant or farmer and the materials provided by nature. Throughout England this was once the case; no two houses were precisely alike because no two people had precisely the same ideas, wishes and requirements; and the material was dictated by the stone or timber provided by the district. Every building was in old times the combined expression of the individual man and the genius loci.

      The timber cottages which are still to be found in the town tell of the time when tracts of the original forest still lingered, and oak was the cheapest material fit for building. Often the foundation of the walls is of stone, and the earliest stone to be used was that which could be had for the digging, the blue lias found in thin layers embedded in the clay of which the vale is composed. In the back streets which retain, as would be expected, more of their primitive character than the more respectable thoroughfares, this blue stone has been much used, and in the churches it can be seen in the earlier parts making a very pretty wall with its thin horizontal lines. The tower of the church of All Saints shows it to great advantage.

      Another stone is also employed, and one far better suited for building, because it can be obtained in blocks of almost any size, and carved with the utmost delicacy. This is oolite, the stone of which the Bell Tower is built. From Norman times it was used in the more important parts of the Abbey, as is shown in the foundations of the great tower now exposed to view, and in Abbot Reginald's gateway. But the oolite stone could not be got much nearer than Broadway, and what was used by the monks in all probability came from the hill above that village. In numerous old houses this stone is made use of, but in almost all it must have come indirectly, having once formed part of the structure of the monastic buildings, or perhaps of the castle which for a short time flanked the bridge on the Bengeworth side of the river.

      In the seventeenth century bricks came into fashion, and good clay for their manufacture was amply provided by the neighbourhood. To the end of the century belongs Dresden House in High Street, a fine example of the style of William the Third's time, built by a wealthy lawyer, who came to settle here, from the northern part of the county. Tower House in Bridge Street, probably of later date, is beautiful in its proportions and mouldings, the prominent lead spouts adding much to the general design. Unfortunately to this fashion for formality and brick-work, at a later period superseded by a covering of plaster, we must attribute the demolition of the older fronts, generally of timber, and often gabled and projecting, which gave such a pleasant irregularity

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