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of his Monastery, and is said to have contained eight silver 
bells. It is the sole remaining structure of the rich Monastery 
of Evesham, and is of Perpendicular architecture, elegantly. 
panelled in stone on its E. and W. faces, and with crocketted . 
pinnacles at its summit. Close by in a wall of a private garden 
are the remains of an arch which once led into the Monks’ 
Chapter House. The Monks built two Churches for the towns-. 
folk, still standing and in use close to the Tower, and in the 
same God’s acre. Both have been well restored and have one, 
Vicar, who, to suit all views of his parishioners, has ritualistic 
services in All Saints, and plain worship at St. Lawrence, failing, 
as fs natural, to satisfy either Catholics or Protestants by this. 
quaint arrangement. 
From the Town the Churches are reached by passing under 
an old black and white house, like a lich gate. All Saints con-, 
tains some Norman remains, and has a side Chapel fitted with, 
Altar for week-day services, six candles on high Altar, sanctus. 
bell, and a picture of the Madonna della Sedula. St. Lawrence 
has 14 windows each side in the Clerestory, a Baptistery to the 
S. elegantly groined with fan tracery and a huge painted E, 
window with two coloured lights on both N. and S. sides of the 
Chancel, contiguous to it. Several painted windows are in both 
’ Churches, which, being by different artists and of various dates,, 
present a hideous contrast by juxta-position. Externally there 
are spires to both Churches. 
’ Having visited the Abbey Tower and these Churches a six. 
mile drive to the interesting old village of Broadway followed, 
and a ramble taken on foot along its main street to view the, 
picturesque gabled houses from 200 to 250 years old. 
First the Lygon Arms Inn was visited, and Cromwell’s: 
Chambers seen. This house, originally the White Hart, is 
known to have been an hotel kept by John Trevis in 1549, and 
was still held by one of his descendants of the same name in 
1682, as tenant for life under the will of his father, Matthew 

