J Brit Archaeol Ass 155

Excavation and architectural analysis recovered a substantial series of timber temporary buildings (the most extensive known on any Cistercian site). Considerable evidence was also recovered of a complex piped water supply first installed at the foundation and maintained throughout the life of the Abbey. The slow development of the cloister ranges between c. 1170 and c. 1220 demonstrated for the first time the process by which a small Cistercian monastery was developed. Also notes that the cultural collections from the site were exceptional.

Excavation revealed evidence for an east range of three rooms (a slype, a chapter house, and a parlour), apparently dated to a single construction period (c. 1190 AD). After the Dissolution this range was gradually robbed and then the area was used as a farmyard, receiving rubbish deposited from the neighbouring mansion. It was partly excavated in 1914 and turned into an aviary and latterly a rose garden. The reredorter was not found nor was there any evidence of the main drain adjoining this range.

Discusses the design, history, date and possible patronage of the choir-stalls. Suggests that the stalls were constructed between 1483 and 1512 AD. Includes a separately authored report on

Discusses the library's seventeenth-century panelling.

Discusses Beauchamp's fifteenth-century marble tomb in St Mary's Church, Warwick, which is capped with a copper and gilt effigy contained within a brass hoop and bar `hearse'.