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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
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lies the effigy of a warrior in chainmail with small circular shield and a long-handled hammer. On the south side of the church stood, until 1841, a timber buildingdescribed as a hall. It appears in the plate of Malvern Priory, in NashsHistory of Worcestershire. The south side of the church, where the con-ventual buildings were situated, is in private hands. The Priory Gateway, built in the 15th century, with a porters room,will be found on the south-west of the church. Great Malvern was reached shortly after mid-day, and the members atonce proceeded to the Priory, where Canon Pelley read prayers, andafterwards kindly gave some particulars of the church, of which heremarked that various books had been written upon it, but the best book■of all was the church itself, as it seemed to speak its own history, itsstained-glass windows taking them back to the story of the foundation ofthe Priory of St. Werstan of Deerhurst, who, driven thence by the Danes, 62 Transactions for the Year 1902.
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GUESTEN HALL, 1850. sought a more peaceful abode under the shelter of the lovely Malverns.The windows also told of the martyrdom of the prior and the persecutionof the monks by the Danes. The rector also gave some interesting par-ticulars relating to the architectural features of the church, which isnotable for a grand nave of Norman style, which alone remains torepresent the original structure, the year 1501 seeing a rebuilding,which gave the church an exceedingly fine choir in the Perpendicularstyle, and lofty clerestory and other works in the same style—all excellentspecimens. The President warmly thanked Canon Pelley for his excellent epitomeof the history of the church, after which Mr. St. Clair Baddeley gave a truly charming description of thestained glass, as he had done the previous day at Tewkesbury Abbey. Hesaid that there could be no more lovely contrast in the matter of its Malvern. windows than the Abbey they had visited the day before and the Priory —the Abbey, with

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