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  • But Vine Street is saved from becoming commonplace by the low line of buildings at the end, still known as the Almonry, and over which the Gatehouse, in spite of its dismantled and modernised state, still seems to keep guard.

    Evesham 1901

  • It came in the form of the announcement in March, 1957, that the great chair of Evesham Abbey, described as the most important relic of old Evesham and a priceless exhibit in the history of English furniture, would be on show at the Almonry museum from April onwards.

    Arrival of abbey relics was important day for museum 2007

  • It came in the form of the announcement in March, 1957, that the great chair of Evesham Abbey, described as the most important relic of old Evesham and a priceless exhibit in the history of English furniture, would be on show at the Almonry museum from April onwards.

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

  • After the dissolution in 1539, the chair became a fixture in the Almonry, and in 1664 passed with the abbey site into the hands of Edward Rudge, esquire, citizen and alderman of London.

    Arrival of abbey relics was important day for museum 2007

  • After the dissolution in 1539, the chair became a fixture in the Almonry, and in 1664 passed with the abbey site into the hands of Edward Rudge, esquire, citizen and alderman of London.

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

  • In Blade's Life of Caxton, the reader will find interesting examples of the earliest woodcut blocks illustrating the quaint and rare tomes issued by the Almonry, Westminster, also at Oxford.

    Banbury Chap Books And Nursery Toy Book Literature Edwin Pearson

  • +Almonry+; there are in this building some remains of Early English vaulting, and at the east end may be observed the remains of a triplet window of the same period; the middle window has been destroyed by the insertion of a modern window, now blocked up, but the stone work of the side windows can easily be traced.

    Ely Cathedral Anonymous

  • RIMBAULT in "NOTES AND QUERIES," Vol. ii., p. 99.; it states that in the Almonry --

    Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850 Various

  • Near the Sanctuary was the Almonry, with its chapels and charitable endowments, but deriving its chief interest to us as being the scene of the early labours of Caxton.

    Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

  • Colleges, and who saw the signs of the coming changes, specially protected in the Almonry, which she had re-endowed, the great pioneer printer and his presses.

    Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

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