244 PROCEEDINGS OF THE COTTESWOLD CLUB 



The surviving tower was in course of building at the 

 dissolution of the Monastery, and it and a cloister arch are 

 the only remains of the Abbey left standing. Simon de 

 Montfort was buried in the Abbey, probably near the high 

 altar, but all traces of his tomb have disappeared. 



The town became possessed of the tower, and it is now 

 a campanile for the two Churches near. Under the kind 

 guidance of Mr Slatter and Mr Tomes the party saw a 

 number of ancient objects connected with the Abbey, not 

 the least interesting l)eing the processional cross which 

 hangs in the office of the Clerk to the Burial Board. 



From Evesham the party drove to Broadway, where Mr 

 Averill conducted them to some of the many quaint and 

 picturesque cottages for which the little town is justly 

 celebrated. Especially may be mentioned Pershore 

 Grange, a Priory of the Abbey of Pershore, a curious 

 old structure, until lately the studio of Mr Millett. After 

 lunching at the Eygon Arms, an old Tudor building, the 

 members drove to the ancient Church of Broadway, a cruci- 

 form structure of late I2th century date, with a richly 

 carved but disused Jacobean Pulpit. 



A concise little history of the Church is written in a 

 book kept l)v the attendant, an example worthy of wide 

 imitation. 



A thick ha^^e, which hid the distant scenery, deterred 

 many of the members from climbing the hill to Broadway 

 Tower, built by Lady Coventry a century ago, so that 

 from Croome she might see the Broadway estate. Close 

 to the tower is a camp, a l)ank and a ditch with their two 

 ends resting on the declivity of the hill. On the tower is a 

 notice board, stating that if visitors must scribble some- 

 where there is a vacant place on the board on which to do 

 so. An inspection of some quarries on the lower slope 

 of the hill yielded but little result ; but more productive 

 was a visit to the Bengeworth brickworks, close to 

 Evesham, where there is an extensive exposure of the 

 Lower Lias. 



