Preliminary
Bibliography of Tewkesbury Abbey
n.a. A new handbook and guide to Tewkesbury Abbey Church : with a comprehensive history and description of the Church and its sepulchral chapels and monuments ... : and a short sketch of the restoration of the Abbey : illustrated with three engravings. Tewkesbury : W. North, 1880-1889?
Amyot, Thomas Some account of the abbey church of Tewkesbury, intended to illustrate the plans, elevations, and sections, of that building, engraved at the expence of the society. London, 1800-1899
Bannister, W. G. Tewkesbury Abbey :as it was and as it is Worcester [England] : Phillips & Probert, 1920-1929?
Bannister, W. G. Transactions Of The Bristol And Gloucester Shire Archeological Society, XLVIII (1926)
T. Blashill, 'The Architectural History of Tewkesbury Abbey', Associated Architectural Reports and Papers, XIV ( 1877-8), 97- 104.
Blunt, John Henry. Tewkesbury Abbey and its associations, London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., ltd.;[etc., etc.] 1898
British Archaeological Association., Medieval art and architecture at Gloucester and Tewkesbury. [London] : British Archaeological Association, 1985
Fernie, Eric. “A Note on the Historiography of Tewkesbury Abbey” in British Archaeological Association., Medieval art and architecture at Gloucester and Tewkesbury. [London] : British Archaeological Association, 1985. pp1-5
Gardiner, Rena. The story of Tewkesbury Abbey. Blandford Forum, Dorset, [England] : Workshop Press, 1971
Knight, George Wilson. Tewkesbury abbey. [Leeds] 1957
Littlehales, Henry Tewkesbury Abbey; or, An account of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Mary, founded at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, A.D. 715. Tewkesbury, W. North 1890s
Massé, H. J. L. J., The abbey church of Tewkesbury, with some account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, London, G. Bell & Sons, 1921, 1900
Moore, F. Notes on "old Tewkesbury" past and present; ... history and description of Tewkesbury Abbey Church, the restoration, purchase of Abbey House ...; ... the battle of Tewkesbury; ... old houses of Tewkesbury, Holme, Castle, and several places of interest near Tewkesbury. 1893
Nichols, John Gough. Description of the church of St. Mary, Warwick, and of the Beauchamp chapel ... also of the chantry chapel of Isabella, Countess of Warwick, in Tewkesbury Abbey ... London, for the author 1838
J. L. Petit, The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury : with a description of its plan and architectural peculiarities (Cheltenham 1848)
N. Pevsner et. at, ed., The Buildings of England (various dates).
MONOGRAPHS ON THE ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE OF TEWKESBURY
E. G. Benson, 'What was the original apse of Tewkesbury like?', Transactions Of The Bristol And Gloucester Shire Archeological Society, LXVII ( 1946 - 8), 399 - 404;
Bony, J., 'Tewkesbury et Pershore, deux elevations a quatre Stages de la fin du XIe siecle', Bulletin Monumental. XCVI (1937), 281 -90.
Bony, J., 'A propos de Tewkesbury et Pershore', Bulletin Monumental X(~l (1937) 503 -4.
Bony, J. 'La chapelle episcopate de Hereford et les apports Lorrains en Angleterre apres la Conquete' Actes do XV International Congrcs tic I histoire de l art (Paris, 1959), 36-43.
Clapham, Sir A. W. 'The Form of the Early Choir of Tewkesbury and its Significance', Archaeol.ff., CVI Supplement for the year 1949 (194-).
Gem, R. D. H. 'Bishop Wulfstan II and the Romanesque Cathedral Church of Worcester', British Archeological Association Conference Transactions I (1978), 15 - 37.
Halsey, Richard “Tewkesbury Abbey: Some Recent Observations” in British Archaeological Association., Medieval art and architecture at Gloucester and Tewkesbury. [London] : British Archaeological Association, 1985 pp 16-35
Kidson, Peter “The Abbey Church of St. Mary at Tewkesbury in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centruies” in British Archaeological Association., Medieval art and architecture at Gloucester and Tewkesbury. [London] : British Archaeological Association, 1985 pp 6-15.
Knowles, W. H. “The Develpoment of Architecture in Gloucestershire to the close of the 12th Century” Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucester shire Archeological Society for 1928 vol 50 pp. 74-77
McAleer, J.P. 'The Romanesque Transept and Choir Elevation of Tewkesbury and Pershore', Art Bulletin, LXIV ( 1982), 549 - 63.
McAleer, J.P. 'The Romanesque Choir of Tewkesbury Abbey and the Problem of the "Colossal order"', Art Bulletin, .xv (1983), 535 - 558.
Morris, Richard K. , “Early Gothic Architecture at Tewkesbury Abbey”. In British Archaeological Association., Medieval art and architecture at Gloucester and Tewkesbury. [London] : British Archaeological Association, 1985 pp 93-8
Prache, Ann, “Le Choer roman de Tewkesbury”, Bulletin Monumental 145 no 1 1987 pp 115-6.
Prache, Ann, “ Tewkesbury et Pershore ”, Bulletin Monumental 141 no 3 1983 pp 306-7
Thurlby, Malcom, “The Elevations of the Romanesque Abbey Churches of St. Mary at Tewkesbury and St. Peter at Gloucester”. In British Archaeological Association., Medieval art and architecture at Gloucester and Tewkesbury. [London] : British Archaeological Association, 1985 pp 36-51
Thurlby, Malcom, “The Romanesque Elevations of Tewkesbury and Pershore”. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. V44 p 5-17 March 1985.
“FURNISHINGS”
Bannister, W. G. The stained and painted glass in the windows of Tewkesbury Abbey Church, with some account of the history of stained glass generally. Tewkesbury n.d.
Hartshorne, Albert, "Observations upon Certain Monumental Effigies in the West of England, And Particularly in the Neighborhood of Cheltham " Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucester shire Archeological Society for 1879-80, vol IV pp. 231-47
R. K. Morris, 'Tewkesbury Abbey, The Despenser Mausoleum', Trans. Transactions Of The Bristol And Gloucester Shire Archeological Society, XCIII (1974), 142-55
E F Potter; Paul Woodmansterne; Jeremy Marks. Tewkesbury Abbey stained glass . Watford : Woodmansterne, 1986 (1 folded sheet)
GENERAL WORKS THAT DISCUSS TEWKESBURY
Bony, J., The English Decorated Style: Gothic Architecture Transformed 1250-1350, (Ithaca 1979), 37-8, 51 -2.
Prior, Prior and Arthue Gardiner. An account of medieval figure-sculpture in England, with 855 photographs, by Edward S. Prior ... and Arthur Gardner ... Cambridge, University Press, 1912.
Webb, Geoffrey. Architecture in Britain, the Middle Ages (Baltimore, Penguin Books,1956), 27, 28, 32-3,49, 50;
Kidson, Peter. A history of English architecture. Part I, by Peter Kidson; part II, by Peter Murray New York, Arco Pub. Co. [1963, c1962], 54,55-8,62;
D. Verey Gloucester Cathedral / David Verey & David Welander. (Gloucester : A. Sutton, 1979.), 357-65
GUIDEBOOKS
Bessacarr, Look at Tewkesbury Abbey.1988 (Guidebook)
Bennett, James. A Tewkesbury guide: containing a sketch of the history of the borough; the battle of Tewkesbury; and a description of the abbey church, its monuments, &c. 1860
Friends of Tewkesbury Abbey. Tewkesbury Abbey. Tewkesbury : Friends of Tewkesbury Abbey, 1900s
Gough, Lionel. A short guide to the Abbey Church of St. Mary the Virgin at Tewkesbury [Oxford] : Friends of Tewkesbury Abbey, 1951
MacLagan, D. W. A popular guide to Tewkesbury Abbey Gloucester : British Pub. Co., 1900
Porter, Arnold. Tewkesbury Abbey. Andover : Pitkin, 1992
Purefoy, Brian. The pictorial history of Tewkesbury Abbey. [London, Pitkin Pictorials, 1969
Purefoy, Canon Brian Tewkesbury Abbey [London : Pitkin Pictorials, 1981] (Guidebook)
Smith, Ernest Frederic. Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury [Eng.] R.A. Newman, 1934 (Guidebook)
Spence-Jones, H D M; Edward J Burrow Gloucester and Tewkesbury, Gloucester [H. Edwards] 1895
Tavinor, Michael Tewkesbury Norwich : Canterbury,1998 (Guidebook)
Verey, David, Gloucestershire. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1970.