Pershore Abbey
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Overview
A much larger abbey church, dating back to AD 1020, was truncated after the Dissolution, leaving just a magnificent lantern tower of 1330, the monk’s quire to serve as a nave, and a high triforium and clerestory built in 1239. What remains has been shored up with buttresses over the centuries. The building was restored with great skill by George Gilbert Scott in the mid-19th century, to include an extraordinary ‘floating’ bell-ringing platform, designed to reveal the tower’s interior for the first time. Look up also to see the unusually shaped ‘ploughshare’ stone vaulting, so-called for its elongated V-shapes. The stained glass is Victorian, and includes one, by Hardman, which depicts the history of the abbey.
Features
- Opening Times
- Open all year
- Opening Times: Open daily 8–5.30
- Facilities
- Parking nearby
- Children
About the area
Worcestershire is a county of rolling hills, save for the flat Vale of Evesham in the east and the prominent spine of the Malverns in the west. Nearly all of the land is worked in some way; arable farming predominates – oilseed rape, cereals and potatoes – but there are concentrated areas of specific land uses, such as market gardening and plum growing.
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Garth Cottage
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Bredon View Glamping Retreats
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