Tewkesbury Abbey

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Date:	1200-2010
Places:	Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Religious Institutions (Pre-Reformation) > Benedictine monks
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C29070 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O66577 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	15th cent: founders' book	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Top Gloucs d 2
2	1482-1539: deeds (2) re Pirton manor (1482), receipts for rent there (1535-9) and case rel to close-breaking there (?1526)	College of Arms	Foliot deeds, Worcs, nos.688/60, 699-709	NRA 23441 College of Arms
3	13th cent: calendar of charters, bound with annals	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Cotton Cleopatra A.vii	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (953)
4	16th cent: transcript of an account of the abbey's founders and benefactors	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add 36985	See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (954)
5	15th cent: papers rel to legal disputes with King's College Cambridge	Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre	KCE	See M Stansfield, Guide to the Muniments of King's College, Cambridge (1988)
6	1386: kitchener's accounts	Society of Antiquaries of London	MS 579	NRA 27819
7	15th cent: court rolls of Taynton manor, Oxon 1462-75 and Goldcliff, Monmouthshire 1451-55	Eton College	ECR 63/163-165, 64/30	NRA 31984 Eton College
8	13th cent: missal formerly belonging to with calendar of obits	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Gg.iii.21	See Cambridge University Library Catalogue of Manuscripts (1979 reprint)
9	lost registers	Unknown location		See GRC Davis Medieval Cartularies (955, 956A)
10	1978-2010: files of work done by architect Neil H Birdsall (of Birdsall, Swash & Blackman, Norfok) as surveyor to the fabric and architect to Tewkesbury PCC	Gloucestershire Archives	D12525