Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury
                                            
                            With Some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst, Gloucestershire
                            
                                16 Oct, 2018                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        The Chronicles of the Abbey tell us that the first monastery at Tewkesbury was built by two Saxon nobles, Oddo and Doddo, in or about the year 715, a time when Mercia was flourishing under Ethelred, and later, under Kenred and Ethelbald. It was dedic
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                                                The Chronicles of the Abbey tell us that the first monastery at Tewkesbury was built by two Saxon nobles, Oddo and Doddo, in or about the year 715, a time when Mercia was flourishing under Ethelred, and later, under Kenred and Ethelbald. It was dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and endowed with the manor of Stanway and other lands for the support of the Benedictine monks who, under a Prior, were there installed. Oddo and Doddo died soon afterwards, and were buried in the abbey church of Pershore. Less