A cenotaph of Victoria Woodhull-Martin is located at Tewkesbury Abbey.

In 1877 he founded the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings ( SPAB, sometimes also known as " Anti-Scrape "), which sprang into being as a practical protest against a scheme for restoring and reviving Tewkesbury Abbey.

Clarence's wife Isabel died in 1476, two months after giving birth to a short-lived son named Richard ( 6 October 1476 – 1 January 1477 ), and they are buried together at Tewkesbury Abbey in Gloucestershire.

* Richard of York ( 6 October 1476 – 1 January 1477 ); born at Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire ; died at Warwick Castle, Warwick, Warwickshire, where he was buried.

Tewkesbury Abbey

Tewkesbury Abbey was just behind the Lancastrian centre.

Many of the other Lancastrian nobles and knights sought sanctuary in Tewkesbury Abbey.

The monument traditionally identified as that of John Wakeman remains in Tewkesbury Abbey.

The Abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Tewkesbury, in the English county of Gloucestershire, is the second largest parish church in the country and a former Benedictine monastery.

In the 10th century the religious foundation at Tewkesbury became a priory subordinate to the Benedictine Cranbourne Abbey in Dorset.

Arms of Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester, Founders Book of Tewkesbury Abbey, c. 1525

The nave of Tewkesbury Abbey

Notable church monuments surviving in Tewkesbury Abbey include:

The market town of Tewkesbury developed to the north of the abbey precincts, of which vestiges remain in the layout of the streets and a few buildings: the Abbot's gatehouse, the Almonry barn, the Abbey Mill, Abbey House, the present vicarage and some half-timbered dwellings in Church Street.

The Abbey School Tewkesbury, which educated, trained and provided choristers to sing the service of Evensong from its foundation in 1973 by Miles Amherst, closed in 2006 ; the choir was then re-housed at Dean Close School, Cheltenham and renamed the Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum.

* Morris, Richard K. & Shoesmith, Ron ( editors ) ( 2003 ) Tewkesbury Abbey: history, art and architecture.

* www. geograph. co. uk: photos of Tewkesbury Abbey

* Illuminated armorials in the Founders ' and Benefactors ' Book of Tewkesbury Abbey, early 16th century, at the Bodleian Library

* David Bagley, " The bells of Tewkesbury Abbey "

* Heritage Trail: Tewkesbury Abbey

He has been commissioned by a number of churches in the UK, notably Tewkesbury Abbey and the church of St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol.

Instead, her army made another forced march of to Tewkesbury, attempting to reach the next bridge at Upton-upon-Severn, further on.

When Isabel was on her deathbed in 1240, she asked to be buried next to her first husband at Tewkesbury, but Richard had her interred at Beaulieu Abbey instead.

The play ahistorically depicts him participating in the Battle of Tewkesbury and being captured.

* The Battle of Tewkesbury is mentioned in Shakespeare's play Richard III

Three series were made, including a pilot, ( in the pilot, Tewkesbury the butcher and Donald the vicar were played by different actors ), but Frances Cox who played Grace Pullit, the librarian in the pilot, continued to play her in all three series.

While the Wars of the Roses effectively ended at Tewkesbury in 1471, Richard III's alleged murder of the Princes in the Tower, coupled with his invalidation by Act of Parliament, subsequently repealed, of the marriage of Edward IV to Elizabeth Woodville caused the English people to rally behind the last reasonably legitimate British adult male descendant of Edward III, Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond.

The original script was written by Joan Tewkesbury, who had collaborated with Altman on several of his films, including McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Thieves Like Us.

The screenplay is written by Joan Tewkesbury.

Margaret was forced to lead her own army at the Battle of Tewkesbury on 4 May 1471, at which the Lancastrian forces were defeated and her seventeen-year old son was killed.

The Battle of Tewkesbury, which took place on 4 May 1471, was one of the decisive battles of the Wars of the Roses.

Deprived of Warwick's support, the Lancastrians suffered their final defeat at the Battle of Tewkesbury on 4 May 1471, which marked the downfall of the House of Lancaster and the ascendancy of the House of York.

After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the people of Tewkesbury saved the abbey from destruction in 1539: Insisting it was their parish church, which they had the right to keep, they bought it from King Henry VIII for the value of its bells and lead roof which would have been salvaged and melted down, leaving the structure a roofless ruin.

* 1375-Edward Despenser, Lord of the Manor of Tewkesbury, is remembered today chiefly for the effigy on his monument, which shows him in full colour kneeling on top of the canopy of his chantry, facing toward the high altar

A long distance footpath has been created which follows the river from its source to the River Severn at Tewkesbury.

From Alveston weir, which is upstream of Stratford-upon-Avon, downstream to Tewkesbury and the River Severn, the river has been rendered navigable by the construction of locks and weirs.

Additionally, in this production, Boxall as Margaret fully participated in the Battle of Tewkesbury, which was considered a bold move at the time.

3 Henry VI was used as the source for Act 1, which dramatised Henry's lamentation about the burdens of Kingship ( 2. 5 ), the battle of Tewkesbury ( Act 5 – although Margaret's speech in Act 5, Scene 1 was replaced with Henry V's " once more unto the breach " speech from Henry V and is spoken by Warwick ) and Richard's murder of Henry in the tower ( 5. 6 ).

In 1661 he was created Viscount Malden, in the County of Essex, and Earl of Essex, with remainder, failing heirs male of his own, to, firstly, his brother Henry Capell ( later Baron Capell of Tewkesbury ; see below ), failing which to, secondly, his brother Edward Capell.

It gives its name to the Borough of Tewkesbury, of which the town is the second largest settlement.

Evidence of monastic buildings from the years immediately following the conquest can still be seen surrounding Tewkesbury Abbey, which was begun in 1090 and consecrated on 23 October 1121.

Both rivers which meet at Tewkesbury were overwhelmed by the volume of rain that fell in the surrounding areas, up to over a 5 day period, which started on Friday 20 July.

The town features many notable Tudor buildings, but its major claim to fame is Tewkesbury Abbey, a fine Norman Abbey, originally part of a monastery, which was saved from the Dissolution of the Monasteries by King Henry VIII after being bought by the townspeople for £ 453 to use as their parish church.

Today these are the only remaining buildings which at one time belonged to Tewkesbury Abbey.

In the 1960s, a housing estate of some 600 dwellings was developed on land formerly belonging to Mitton Manor in the extreme south of the parish, which was then tranferred to neighbouring Tewkesbury parish.

Although this was rejected by Tewkesbury Borough Council in 2007, the developers have since launched an appeal to the Secretary of State for communities and local government about the decision, which has triggered a full planning inquiry.

The historic town of Tewkesbury is situated south west on the River Severn which river also runs through the nearest city of Worcester ( from Eckington ).