Abbot Gallery

English Cathedrals - The Cloister- Gloucester

English Cathedrals - The Cloister- Gloucester - View along high vaulted corridor. Part of Box 144 Boswell .Collection Wardle records that in 1058 Ealdred, Bishop of Worcester at the time, rebuilt the church of St Peter. The foundations of the present church were laid by Abbot Serlo (10721104). Walter Frocester (d. 1412) the abbey's historian, became its first mitred abbot in 1381. Until 1541, Gloucester lay in the see of Worcester, but the separate see was then constituted, with John Wakeman, last abbot of Tewkesbury, as its first bishop. Date: circa 1900

© The Boswell Collection, Bexley Heritage Trust / Mary Evans

Henry VIII demands one hundred pounds from the Abbot

King Henry VIII pictured with the Abbott of Reading Abbey who had been imprisoned in the Tower of London. Upon hunting in Windsor Forest Henry had disguised himself as a Royal Guard as a means to trick the abbot. He sat with the abbot whilst he ate his meal of sirloin steak. The Abbott mistakenly mocked the king's own greedy tendencies, claiming he "would give a 100 pound that I could eat as lustily" as the king. The abbot soon was held under arrest in the tower whereby the king later visited to claim his one hundred pounds. Date: c. 1540

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll. Catalonia. Spain

Romanesque Art. Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll. Founded by the Count Wilfred the Hairy in 879 or 880. Historic-artistic monument since 1931. Sculptural portic. Relief representing July: a couple carrying a bundle of grass. Ripoll. Catalonia. Spain

© Thaliastock / Mary Evans

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