The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
not confirmed (now)
Augustinian house, former
After the dissolution of the Abbey in 1538, some of the stone was used for the Earl of Leicester's developments at Kenilworth Castle,c.1570; other stones were used for local building foundations, etc. Loose sculptures from the excavations of 1890 and 1922 are now held in the Abbey Barn museum, an essentially 14thc. monastic building, later used as a barn. The site was covered over in 1967 for preservation.
Ruined church
Early monastic site with ruined round tower and nave and chancel church. A medieval residential tower was built over the earlier church probably in the 16thc.
Benedictine house, former
Only a section of walling survives from the abbey church itself. Fragments of the 13thc. chapter house, the free-standing early 16thc. bell-tower and the gateway otherwise remain. The lower part of the gateway is built of stone, and of 12thc. date, the upper parts, probably dating from the 15thc., are timber-framed. Romanesque sculpture is found in the gateway arch (see para. III.1(i) below); some fragments in the museum may also come from the Abbey (see Evesham, Museum).