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Evesham, Worcestershire

Evesham Abbey - Abbot Lichfield's Bell Tower, completed c1525-30. Evesham, Worcestershire

 

 

THE BELL TOWER, MARKET PLACE

 

 

Grade I listed

 

List Entry Number: 1081353

 

 

Details

 

MARKET PLACE 1. (South Side) 5249The Bell Tower SP 0343 NE 1/4 7.5.52. I GV 2. Early C16. Built by Abbot Lichfield. Rises in 3 stages to 110 ft. Pierced by an archway with unfinished vaulting and is surmounted by openwork battlements, and pinnacles. Fine and very late example of Perpendicular style.

 

Church of All Saints, Church of St Lawrence, The Bell Tower, Abbot Reginald's Wall and the Porter's Lodge, Remains of west wall of North Transept of Abbey, Archway to south of the Remains of west wall of the North Transept of Abbey, Abbot Reginald's Gateway and The Old Vicarage, the Public Library, Nos 6 and 6A, Nos 7 and 8 and Walker Hall, Market Place form a group with Nos 53 and 54 incorporating Remains of Abbey Gate; Gate and railings of No 53, Remains of Abbey Stables, The Almonry and The Stocks, Merstow Green together with Nos 1 and 3 and Remains of south wall of Abbey Precinct, Little Abbey Lane.

 

Listing NGR: SP0375043662

 

historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1081353

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