PRESERVATION OF AN ABBEY.
AN ARCHITECTURAL TREASURE Sun' Special Cables, September 9, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 8. Lord Coventry is appealing for funds for the preservation of the Pershore Abbey Church, Worcestershire, one of the finest architectural treasures in England. . [The abbey, in the parish of Holy Cross, is said to have been founded about 970 by King Edgar, on the site of a Mercian religious settlement. It was a mitred abbey of the Benedictines. Only a remnant is left—the fine early English choir with decorated additions, the Norman south transept and the majestic decorated tower; while slight -fragments of a Norman nave are seen."], . ■
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 September 1913, Page 5
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105PRESERVATION OF AN ABBEY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 September 1913, Page 5
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