Pershore Abbey served as the inspiration for the College chapel's tower

It is based on Pershore Abbey.

Pershore Abbey, at Pershore in Worcestershire, was an Anglo-Saxon abbey and is now an Anglican parish church.

From the early 12th century, there is evidence that Pershore Abbey claimed possession of some of the relics of Saint Eadburh of Winchester, the sainted daughter of King Edward the Elder.

Pershore Abbey has a 25 cwt ring of eight bells.

Following her canonisation in 972, some of her remains were transferred to Pershore Abbey in Worcestershire, which is dedicated to her.

An entry in the Great Domesday Book of 1086 lists Evesham, mentioning " Two free men ; Two radmen ; Abbey of St Mary of Evesham ; Abbey of St Mary of Pershore ; Edmund, Abbot of St Mary of Pershore ; Walter, Abbot of St Mary of Evesham ; Aethelwig, Abbot of St Mary of Evesham ; King William as donor ; Odo, Bishop of Bayeux ; Ranulph ; Turstin, Abbot of St Mary of Pershore ; Walter Ponther ; Westminster, Gilbert Crispin, Abbot of St Peter.

The town is best known for Pershore Abbey, Pershore College ( now a campus of Warwickshire College ), and the plums and pears grown locally.

* Pershore Abbey

It was mentioned as being under the possession of Pershore Abbey.

When churches have only one transept, as at Pershore Abbey, there is generally a historical disaster, fire, war or funding problem, to explain the anomaly.

Wadborough is first mentioned in the 10th century when King Edgar of England confirmed that four manses ( priests houses ) there belonged to Pershore Abbey.

In the years leading up to the Norman conquest in 1066, the Church, including the cathedral, Evesham Abbey, Pershore Abbey, Malvern Priory and other religious houses, increasingly dominated county.

Leigh's Norman church ( St. Edburga's ) was built in 1100 by Benedictine monks from Pershore Abbey.

Schools in Pershore follow the three-tier first school ( ages 5 – 9 ), middle school ( ages 9 – 12 ), high school ( ages 12 – 18 ) system practised by Wychavon District Council.

The Pavilion and East Stand in 1895The club had initially favoured the Wycliffe Ground on Pershore Road, but were instead offered a 12-acre " meadow of rough grazing land " in an undeveloped area on the banks of the River Rea by the Calthorpe Estate – the less attractive development land having more to gain from association with the cricket ground.

This facility closed in the late 1970s and some projects and staff were transferred to RSRE ( Royal Signals & Radar Establishment ) near Pershore.

Buses run to Birmingham city centre every few minutes along the Pershore Road ( Services 45, 47 & 146 ).

Where Pershore Road joins Hazelwell Road and Bournville lane there is the Three Horseshoes public house which already existed in 1836, there is also a large Cooperative store and a Cooperative Funeral home these were originally the Ten Acres & Stirchley Street Coperative Soiciety which first opened in 1875.

< nowiki > In 1861 ,</ nowiki > William Frederick Webb, African < nowiki > explorer, bought the Abbey from Wildman's widow.

Some of his works include " Jedburgh Abbey "; " Pontaine Marshes " ( 1847 ); " Backwoods of America " ( 1857 ); " Richmond Hill " ( 1862 ); " Indian Summer " ( 1866 ); " Greenwood Lake " ( 1870 ); " Lake Nemi in Italy " ( 1879 ); " Old Church at Arreton, Isle of Wight " ( 1880 ); " Ramapo Valley " ( 1881 ); " Autumn on the Hudson " ( 1882 ; however, the New York Daily Tribune refers to a painting by Cropsey called " Autumn on the Hudson " in its morning edition of Jan. 7, 1861 ): " Wawayanda Valley " ( 1883 ); " Spring-time in England " ( 1884 ); " October in Ramapo Valley " ( 1885 ); " Autumn on Lake George ," and " A Showery Day " ( 1886 ).

In 1861, Mr and Mrs Webb purchased Newstead Abbey in Ravenshead, Nottingham from Colonel Wildman.

* 1930 – Abbey Lincoln, American singer-songwriter and actress ( d. 2010 )

* 1923 – The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.

* 1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland.

* 1969 – At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the photo that becomes the cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road, one of the most famous album covers in recording history.

# Alexander, Prince of Scotland ( 21 January 1264 Jedburgh – 28 January 1284 Lindores Abbey ); buried in Dunfermline Abbey

# David ( 20 March 1272 – June 1281 Stirling Castle ); buried in Dunfermline Abbey

* 1661 – King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.

* 1100 – Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.

* 1951 – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey.

* 1963 – Marriage of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent to the Hon Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.

Bernard of Clairvaux ( 1090 – 1153 ), in a 1700 painting by Georg Andreas Wasshuber ( 1650 – 1732 ) on display at Heiligenkreuz Abbey.

Since the donation of the Abbey Moutier-Grandvalto and all its possessions to Bishop Adalbero II in 999 till the Reformation, Basel was ruled by prince-bishops ( see Bishop of Basel, whose memory is preserved in the crosier shown on the Basel coat-of-arms – see above ).

* 1065 – Westminster Abbey is consecrated.

Edwin Austin Abbey ( April 1, 1852 – August 1, 1911 ) was an American artist, illustrator, and painter.

* 1547 – Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.

* John of Ford ( ca. 1140 – 1214 ), English religious leader who, from 1191 until his death, served as abbot of Dorset Cistercian monastery Forde Abbey ; ally of King John

* 1559 – Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London, England.

* 1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy – At Abbey Ardennes members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.

* 1987 – Abbey Lee Kershaw, Australian model

* 1922 – Abbey Simon, American pianist

* 1986 – In London, England, United Kingdom, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.

* 1960 – More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.