The Three Choirs: A Handbook to the Cathedrals of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester: A Complete Description of the Buildings, a History of Each Diocese and Biographical Notices of the BishopsKing, R. J. (Richard John)
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The Three Choirs: A Handbook to the Cathedrals of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester: A Complete Description of the Buildings, a History of Each Diocese and Biographical Notices of the Bishops
[A.D. 1072-1104.] SERLO, who laid the foundation of the present
church, dedicated in the year 1100. [A.D. 1113-1130.] WILLIAM, in
whose time (1122) Serlo’s church was greatly injured by fire, (see
Pt. I.) [A.D. 1139-1148.] GILBERT FOLIOT, who in the latter year
became Bishop of Hereford, and in 1163 was translated to London. He
was the well-known opponent of Becket. [A.D. 1306-1329.] JOHN
THOKEY, who built the south aisle of the nave, (see Pt. I. § VII.,)
and received the body of Edward II., (Pt. I. § XII.) [A.D.
1329-1337.] JOHN WYGEMORE, who commenced the great change in the
architecture of the church by his reconstruction of the south
transept, (Pt. I. § VIII.) [A.D. 1337-1351.] ADAM DE STAUNTON; and
[A.D. 1351-1377] THOMAS DE HORTON; who carried forward the work in
the choir and north transept. (Pt. I. §§ IX., X.) [A.D. 1381-1412.]
WALTER FROUCESTER, the historian of the Abbey, (see Pt. I. §
XVIII.,) who built much of the cloister and who procured the grant
of the mitre from Urban VI. [A.D. 1420-1437.] JOHN MORWENT, who
rebuilt part of west end of the church, (Pt. I. § VII.) [A.D.
1450-1457.] THOMAS SEABROKE, who built the tower, [A.D. 1457-1472.]
RICHARD HANLEY; and [A.D. 1472-1498] WILLIAM FARLEY, who built the
Lady-chapel. [A.D. 1515-1539.] WILLIAM MALVERNE, or PARKER, the
last abbot, who subscribed to the King’s supremacy in 1534, and
died soon after the Dissolution.
Robert of Gloucester, whose rhyming “Chronicle of Englonde,” is
important, both historically and as an example of “middle English,” was
a monk of this abbey, during the reigns of Henry III. and John. His
Chronicle was edited by Hearne.
Until 1541 the whole of Gloucestershire lay within the diocese of
Worcester. In that year the see of Gloucester was erected, and the abbey
church, which was re-dedicated to the “Holy and Individed Trinity,”
became its cathedral. The first bishop was--
[A.D. 1541-1549.] JOHN WAKEMAN, who had been Abbot of Tewkesbury,
and one of Henry the Eighth’s chaplains. He was a person of
considerable learning, and had revised the translation of the Book
of Revelation, in Cranmer’s Bible.
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