On Tewkesbury, see Richard K. Morris, "Tewkesbury Abbey: The
Despenser Mausoleum," Transactions of the Bristol and
Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, vol. 73 (1974), 142-55. Also,
although it involves a collegiate foundation, rather than a monastic
one, see the recent excellent study by Dorothy Gillerman, Enguerran
de Marigny and the Church of Notre-Dame at Ecouis: Art and
Patronage in the Reign of Philip the Fair (University Park,
Pennsylvania, 1994). As for Merevale, there is a wide range of
heraldry in the stained glass of the east window of the capella ante
portas, which also includes a splendid Tree of Jesse; there is also a
heraldic panel from the abbey now in the National Gallery of Victoria
in Melbourne. On this, see Richard Marks, "Cisterican
window glass in England and Wales," in C. Norton and D.
Park, eds, Cistercian Art and Architecture in the British Isles
(Cambridge, 1986). Wonderful stuff.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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