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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
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e second arch from the east onthe north side are two brackets of the same character as the caps; thesealso appear at Northleach. There is a tradition that William Grevel built the north aisle, and it is 52 Transactions for the Year 1901. possible that the eastern limb of its church, with the chapels, is olderthan the nave. The tower is a handsome example of late Perpendicular. It has fourstages, and is ornamented with panels, battlements, and crockettedpinnacles. An old rhyme says: A man of the name of Bower builtGloucester Cathedral and Campden tower. This cannot mean thatBower was the architect of Gloucester tower, for this we know was builtin the time of Abbot Seabroke, 1450-57, by Robert Tully, who was after-wards Bishop of St. Davids. Hoc quod digestum specularis opusque politum,Tullii hcec ex onere Seabroke Abbate jubente.1 But Bower, as an alias of Robins, is a Gloucester name, and it is quitepossible that the same architect designed the Lady Chapel and Campdentower about 1480.
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NAVE OF CAMPDEN CHURCH. The south chapel of the chancel has been used as a burial-place of theHicks and Noel families, and contains four life-size effigies and two busts.The chancel roof is said to have been the gift of Sir Baptist Hicks, whoalso was the donor of the Jacobaean pulpit and the brass eagle. It was he1 Inscription on west wall of the choir, Gloucester. t Campden. 53 who built Campden House, at the beginning of the seventeenth century ;and we must assign to him the rebuilding of the porch, the caps of theturret staircases leading to the roofs at the north-west and south-westcorners of the nave, and perhaps also the battlements and pinnacles of thenave. There is a quaintly-carved niche over the fifteenth century doorwayof the porch, which must be an insertion. Most of the windows have the lozenge-shaped termination tojtheirhood moulding, which is so characteristic of late Perpendicular; but janeof the windows of the south aisle has instead of this two human heads,with head-

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