Multi-purpose monument

Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 10 Mar 2014

This solid block has information plaques on all four faces. One lists the numerous charters granted to Tewkesbury since the Earls of Gloucester first in the twelfth century; one notes that Henry VIII's Dissolution of the abbey was prevented after the Burgesses of Tewkesbury bought it for £483; one marks the fact that these fields are known as the Vineyards, part of the battle of 1471; the last plaque stands as a memorial to the old Holme Castle, which used to exist in this area. Holme Castle was originally a Saxon residence of some stature and home to the local barony. It was destroyed by a fire in 1140 and rebuilt. However, that abode of the Earl of Gloucester and other lords was also lost by as early as the fourteenth century.

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