Urban Growth and the Medieval Church: Gloucester and WorcesterAlthough the Church played a major role in the development of towns and cities from the earliest times, many important aspects of the early stages of urbanization in England are still poorly understood.Urban Growth and the Medieval Church employs a wealth of historical and archaeological evidence from two key towns - Gloucester and Worcester - to provide a comprehensive picture of their respective developments throughout the medieval period. Only then can the crucial role played by the Church, in shaping the spiritual, social, economic and cultural development of the urban environment, be discovered. |
Contents
Gloucester and the Church before 1100 | 15 |
The landscape of medieval Gloucester | 27 |
churches chapels and parishes | 97 |
Worcester and the Church before 1100 | 127 |
The landscape of medieval Worcester | 139 |
churches chapels and parishes | 197 |
conclusions | 219 |
The development of the parishes | 239 |
their relationship to urban secular authority | 293 |
St Oswalds Priory Gloucester | 301 |
Ecclesiastical precincts in the urban landscape | 307 |
The suburbs and the Church | 325 |
The Church townplanning and public works | 345 |
Conclusion | 365 |
Appendix | 379 |
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Common terms and phrases
Æthelred appears Bishop bishops of Worcester building built burgage burh burial castle cathedral priory cemetery chapel charter church of St city wall Copenhagen Street defences ditch Domesday Book early eleventh century Evesham Abbey excavation extended extramural foundation Friar Gloucester Gloucester's grant Hare Lane Heighway High Street houses Hurst intramural Kingsholm land landgable Lanthony Priory later Mary de Lode medieval metres north side Northgate Old Minster Ordnance Survey origin parish parish boundary parochial period plan-unit planned plot-pattern plot-series possible pre-Conquest precinct priory's probably recorded rental rents road Roman Saints settlement Severn Sidbury Southgate Street St Aldate's St Clement's St Helen's St Kyneburgh's St Mary St Mary's St Michael's St Nicholas's St Oswald's St Owen's St Peter's Abbey St Swithun's Street frontage Street plots suburb suburban suggests surviving tenements thirteenth century town town-plan twelfth century urban VCH Glos Westgate Bridge Westgate Street Worcester Cathedral