Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (1900) (14578329077)

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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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beneath, a shield with three fleur-de-lis, or. Window 3, a mitred Abbot,lake-scene in background, and arms. The principal places named areGlarus, Appenzell, Schaffhausen, Basle, Solothurn, Fribourg, Zug,Zurich, Berne, S. Gall, Luzern. 1 1 St. Gall had a Prince Abbot; Disentis and Einsiedeln were likewise practicallyEcclesiastical Principalities. Hayles Church. 9 On the grand staircase is a not-unrestored German (Cologne School)window, representing the Last Judgment with S. Michael. Near the south door, on to the terrace, is an isolated window full ofrich pieces of various dates, and headed by the Adoration (1670),and The Mock-Coronation of Jesus (1614). It also contains a panelbelonging to Phillip Albrecht von Berndorff, Grand Master of theTeutonic Order, Altschaiisen, 1620. Under a somewhat threatening sky and a slight shower of rain, whichsoon gave way for a time to pleasant sunshine, the company then drove onto the interesting little Church of Hayles. -^Only a brief visit was paid,
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HAYLES CHURCH.Photo by W. T. Alston, B.A. however, by most of the party to this quaint, tiny relic of early archi-tecture, as the claims of luncheon were deemed more pressing. And, indeed,there was hardly room inside it for more*than half the visitors at once. The Church of Hayles consists of nave and chancel, both small. Welearn from the Landboc of Winchcombe Abbey that during the wars ofKing Stephens reign, Ralph de Worcester, who appears to have been aJudge of the Exchequer later on,i took possession of Hayles, fortified acastle, built a church, which Simon, Bishop of Worcester, consecrated,,and compelled the monks of Winchcombe to concede parochial rights.The meadow adjoining the church contains the earthworks of Ralphscastle, and part of the Norman church itself remains. The shafts and 1 Itinerary of Henry H., p. 258. TO Transactions for the Year 1900. caps of the chancel arch and the two pilasters which support the southwall of the chancel are a hundred years older than the olde