Wright, D. and Fradley, M. (2015). Decoding an elite landscape: power and patronage at Hailes, Gloucestershire. Church Archaeology 17. Vol 17, pp. 29-36. https://doi.org/10.5284/1081967. Cite this via datacite
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Decoding an elite landscape: power and patronage at Hailes, Gloucestershire | ||
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Church Archaeology 17 | ||
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Church Archaeology | ||
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29 - 36 | ||
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The hamlet of Hailes, Gloucestershire, is best known as the site of one of the last Cistercian monasteries founded in England. Yet, before the development of a house which would provide the mausoleum for the Earls of Cornwall and a shrine for a relic of the Holy Blood, Hailes was the site of a church and castle built by Ralph of Worcester during the tumultuous political climate of ‘the Anarchy’. Worcester’s church still stands today, immediately north of the main focus of abbey buildings, but the location of his castle has until now been uncertain. This paper reveals that the earthworks surrounding the 12th-century church are not the remains of Worcester’s castle, as has previously been believed. Instead, his fortification was probably inserted into the pre-existing Iron Age enclosure of Hailes Camp, around half a kilometre away. Together, church and castle formed a bipartite power base for the lord who had seized land from Winchcombe Abbey during a period when rights of land tenure were uncertain. While the castle occupation was short-lived, the church was later incorporated into the abbey, serving various parochial functions and perhaps even acting as an improvised gatehouse chapel. | ||
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30 Sep 2020 |
