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Urban growth and the medieval church : Gloucester and Worcester / Nigel Baker and Richard Holt.
Van Pelt Library BR765.G58 B35 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baker, Nigel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns--England--Growth.
- Cities and towns.
- Cities and towns--Religious aspects--Christianity--History.
- Cities and towns--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- History.
- Growth.
- Gloucester (England)--Church history.
- Gloucester (England).
- Worcester (England)--Church history.
- Worcester (England).
- England.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 413 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]
- Contents:
- The urban landscape
- 2 Gloucester and the Church before 1100 15
- The foundation of the Old Minster
- Early grants to the Church of Gloucester
- Abbesses and clergy
- The Minster and the city of Gloucester 679-c. 880
- The foundation of the burh
- The New Minster
- The tenth and eleventh centuries
- The Gloucester minsters in the eleventh century
- 3 The landscape of medieval Gloucester 27
- The intramural city
- The east, south and transpontine suburbs
- 4 Gloucester: churches, chapels and parishes 97
- Churches with parishes
- Non-parochial chapels
- 5 Worcester and the Church before 1100 127
- The Church of Worcester and the early city
- The commercial interests of the Church of Worcester in the eighth and ninth centuries
- The founding of the burh at Worcester
- The Church of Worcester in the tenth and eleventh centuries
- The city in the tenth and eleventh centuries
- 6 The landscape of medieval Worcester 139
- The suburbs
- 7 Worcester: churches, chapels and parishes 197
- The earliest foundations
- Probable later pre-Conquest foundations
- Post-Conquest foundations
- 8 The lesser churches and chapels of Gloucester and Worcester: conclusions 219
- The foundation of the parish churches
- Church buildings
- Church dedications
- The distribution and siting of the lesser churches
- Churches and church-plots
- 9 The development of the parishes 239
- Parochial rights in Worcester and Gloucester
- Parish boundaries: Worcester
- Parish boundaries: Gloucester
- 10 The major religious institutions: their lands and their role in urban growth 261
- The city property of the bishops of Worcester
- The city property of Worcester Cathedral Priory
- The Gloucester lands of St Peter's Abbey
- The Gloucester lands of St Oswald's Priory
- The Gloucester lands of Lanthony Priory
- 11 The major religious institutions: their relationship to urban secular authority 293
- St Peter's Abbey, Gloucester
- The cathedral priory, Worcester
- St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester
- Lanthony Priory, Gloucester
- 12 Ecclesiastical precincts in the urban landscape 307
- The minster churches
- The friaries
- Hospitals and nunneries
- 13 The suburbs and the Church 325
- Gloucester
- Worcester
- Gloucester and Worcester: the character of the suburbs
- 14 The Church, town-planning and public works 345
- Defining town-planning
- Town-planning and public works in Gloucester and Worcester: the foundation of the burhs
- The burhs: extramural and post-mural growth
- Conclusions: the Church and town-planning in Gloucester and Worcester.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-395) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754602664
- OCLC:
- 50738411
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