Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (1901) (14760631686)

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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society

Year: 1901 (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

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LAVARS & C U78. BRISTOL THE HIGH CROSS AT GLOUCESTER. By C. H. DANCEY. The early history of this lofty and beautiful structure is ofa somewhat vague and uncertain date. The earliest drawingor sketch that we have of it is to be seen in the Rental ofGloucester, 1455, where there are four views shown. These,however, are very different to the one exhibited in thedrawing of it, made in the year 1750, by Mr. ThomasRickets, a clever carver and a native of Gloucester. Thiswas engraved by G. Vertue, for the Society of Antiquaries,which engraving shows eight canopied niches, occupied byas many full-length Royal figures.1 Atkins, our local historian, 1712, says the niches areoccupied by the statues of the following Kings and Queens: King John, because he was Earl of Gloucester, andafterwards, when he was King, made it a borough town. King Henry the Third, because he was crowned here,and by his charter made it a Corporation; and Eleanor, hisQueen, because she founded St. Bartholomews Hospital

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