tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post2891813015582061537..comments2024-03-16T08:31:20.966+00:00Comments on English Buildings: Tewkesbury, GloucestershirePhilip Wilkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-66614985578748386352017-01-14T10:31:27.433+00:002017-01-14T10:31:27.433+00:00There's no need to convert me into a fan of Te...There's no need to convert me into a fan of Tewkesbury! In a half-timbered secondhand bookshop I acquired a key Irish text as well as several P G Wodehouses. Much of the immediate local area here in Pontypridd was owned by the Abbey, a bit of cattle-raising mountain given away when the Norman Advenae lords stole somebody else's country, and kept the corn land. Ewenny Priory near Bridgend has Romanesque columns so much like the ones at Tewkesbury (and Gloucester) that I suspect the same builders.<br /><br />Curiously, by the time the improver of Ewenny, by the name of De Londres, died, the massive Romanesque was already old hat: his tombstone at Ewenny is decorated in a delicate flowing Early Gothic style. <br /><br />As with Battle in Sussex, it seems to me that the different frontages in the main streets (Y-shaped) still occupy the same width as when the town of Tewkesbury was laid out: the buildings have been changed, but not the boundaries between them. This might warrant further investigation, and some measuring?Joseph Biddulph (Publisher)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08655472675410890012noreply@blogger.com