A History Of Mitton Chapel And Its Environs

Richard Sermon and Bruce Watson

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1 GSMR 21008. Gloucestershire Sites and Monuments Record (Gloucestershire County Council).

2 MAWER A & STENTON F M, 1993, The Place-Names of Worcestershire, vol 4, English Place Name Society, 102

3 SAWYER, P H, 1968, Anglo-Saxon Charters: an Annotated List and Bibliography, Royal Historical Society, S195, S731, S1308 (London).

4 HOOKE, D, 1990, Worcestershire Anglo-Saxon Charter Bounds, Studies in Anglo-Saxon History, Volume II, 98-99, 145-6 & 153-4.

5 THORN, F, & C, (ed) 1982, Domesday Book, vol 16, Worcestershire, 173a, (Phillimore, Chichester).

6 MOGER, O. M, 1913, Bredon in The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, vol 3, (ed) Willis-Bund J W, 286-87, (London).

7 WILLAS-BUND, J W, (ed) 1902, Register of Bishop Godrey Giffard vol 2, Worcestershire Historical Society, 336, 388-90.

8 TREMLOW, J A, (ed) 1906, Calendar of Papal Registers: Papal Letters, vol 7, HMSO, 524, (London).

9 CROSS, F, L & LIVINGSTONE, E, A, 1977, The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd edition) 583. The feast date for the festival of the Exaltation of the Cross is the 14th September. It marks the day of the exposition the ‘supposed true cross’ at Jerusalem in AD 629, after the capture of the city by the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius (610-40). Actually the city was captured in the spring, but this event was apparently confused with an earlier commemoration, believed to be that of the dedication of the church on the site of the Holy Sepulchre in AD 335.

10 AMPHLETT, J, (ed) 1895, Thomas Habington, A Survey of Worcestershire vol 2, Worcestershire Historical Society, 116.

11 NASH, T R, 1775, 1913, The History and Antiquities of Worcestershire vol 1, 129, 133 (London)

12 MOGER op cit 1913, 287.

13 The original map is still held in the archive at the Earls Croombe Estate, with a copy in the county record office (Worcs. Record Office BA 940.f.970.5.73).

14 LINNELL B, 1978, Theot, Guppy and Wulf, 28 (Theoc Press, Tewkesbury).

15 WATSON, B, 1995, DMV Churches and Chapels in South Worcestershire and North Gloucestershire area – A survey project , Medieval Settlement Research Group Annual Report 10, 16.

16 WATSON, B, Gloucestershire Churches and Chapels with no name: lost dedications (in prep).

17 PEVSNER, N, 1968, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, 98 (London). It is a Grade II listed building. See also GSMR 08022 & WSMR 04626; WSMR – Worcestershire Sites and Monuments Record (Worcestershire County Council).

18 GSMR 08488 & GSMR 08489.

19 MOGER op cit 1913, 278.

20 WSMR 04627. Worcestershire Sites and Monuments Record (Worcestershire County Council).

21 Worcs Record Office BA 330.r.899.1.

22 SUNDAY EXPRESS, Garbo baroness come back and fix your ruined home, 7th December 1969.

23 EVESHAM JOURNAL Mitton Manor too expensive to save, 10th June 1971; GLOUCESTER CITEZEN, Minister rules that manor must not be demolished, 24th September 1971.

24 MILES, D, & FOWLER, P J, 1972, Tewkesbury the Archaeological Implications of Development, 12, Tewkesbury Archaeological Committee.

25 WSMR 06987-8 & GSMR 04856.

26 WEBSTER, G, (ed) 1963, note in West Midlands Archaeological News-Sheet, Number 6, 9, Council for British Archaeology.

27 DAVIS, G M, 1967, Chapel at Mitton near Tewkesbury, Unpublished Notes in the Gloucestershire Collection (RR 302.48).

28 GSMR 15078. Sadly there was no formal archaeological monitoring of the 2003 work.

29 TEWKESBURY ADMAG, Digging up chapel past, 22nd February 2002.

30 An explanatory note accompanied the cross-head: A carving from the ancient chapel at Mitton. It was brought to Bredon in 1966 when the chapel was demolished to make way for the Mitton housing estate.

31 ALLEN, J R, 1906, Early Christian Art in, The Victoria History of the County of Worcestershire vol 2, 183-89, (ed) Willlis-Bund, J. W & Page, W. (London).

32 VEREY, D, 1979, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire the Cotswolds, 103 (London).

33 NEWMAN, J, 1969, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent, 431 (London).

34 POOLEY, C, 1863, The Old Crosses of Gloucestershire, 33 (London).

35 VEREY, D, 1976, The Buildings of England Series Gloucestershire: the Vale and Forest of Dean, 116, second edition (London).

36 WATSON, B, A medieval cross-head from Mickleton Church (in prep).

37 ALLEN op cit 1906, 183-89.

38 PEVSNER, N, 1974, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, 20 (London).

39 BRYANT, R, 1999, Sculpture and architectural stonework in, The Golden Minster; the Anglo-Saxon and later medieval Priory of St Oswold at Gloucester, by Heighway, C, & Bryant, R, CBA Res. Rep. 117, 154-55.

40 STENTON, F, 1947, Anglo-Saxon England, 150 (Oxford).

41 SERMON, R, The mills of the Carrant Brook (in prep).