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In this country generally few buildings survive before the fifteenth century,
and because typically only external inspections were undertaken for Historic
England listings, many of our earliest phases of buildings still go
unrecognised. Gloucestershire is fortunate to have a high survival of early
medieval buildings (before 1400): St Mary’s Church in Kempley contains the
oldest in-situ roof dated in Britain, The Blackfriars 13th century Dominican
friary in Gloucester is the best preserved in Britain and 26 Westgate Street is
described as one of the finest timber-framed town houses of its kind. People
walk past these buildings everyday, but few are aware of their antiquity, rarity
and importance.

Gloucester, Tewkesbury and Newent contain clusters of some best surviving, but
little known timber-frame buildings in Gloucestershire. Gloucester is unique in
being a city with such good survival of medieval buildings. Tewkesbury is one of
the best medieval townscapes in England. Newent contains a broad representation
of timber-framed buildings and contains some particularly wonderful exposed
examples of timber-framing and ornamentation.

Between 2020 and 2022 this project ran with the aim to involve local people and
the building owners in recording and precisely dating the construction of little
known clusters of surviving timber-framed buildings in Gloucester, Tewkesbury
and Newent. Tree-ring dating (Dendrochronology) was undertaken on a total of 51
phases of building concentrating on publicly prominent medieval buildings at
each of the three locations. The main aims of the project were to:

 * increase public understanding and appreciation of this rich heritage
 * to map the chronology of early development


THE PROJECT’S SUMMARY RESULTS

Three self guided Medieval Building walk maps have been produced. PDF copies of
these colour maps can be downloaded from the links below:

Gloucester Walking Map-2022

Tewkesbury Walking Map-2021

Newent Walking Map-2021

Hard copies of these maps are also available from a number of outlets including
in:

Gloucester at The Civic Trust St Michaels Tower & The Folk Museum

Tewkesbury at The Heritage Centre & John Moore Museum

Newent at the Library

Particular preference was given to buildings that were both prominent and
publicly accessible and so their dating would provide a permanent resource
legacy to help in recognising and understanding timber-framed buildings. Where
exciting examples of timber-framing were hidden behind later façades 3D images
were taken to enable such examples to be more widely known and generally
accessible.

Many buildings in the project are publicly accessible and some have previously
attracted Heritage Lottery Funding (HLF). Some of the outstanding examples of
the buildings that were included are shown below:



Llanthony Secunda Priory (Gloucester)



Gloucester Cathedral



The Folk Museum
(Gloucester)



Robert Raikes House
(Gloucester)



Tewkesbury Museum



Heritage Centre
(Tewkesbury)



The Black Dog Inn
(Newent)



Market House
(Newent)


SOME OF THE RESULTS

Youtube videos of three lectures discussing the initial tree-ring results for
the Gloucestershire Dendrochronology Project as well as a four part documentary
on the project is now available on the following page.

Articles

An paper entitled: Tree-Ring Dated Changes in Gloucestershire’s Vernacular
Timber-Framed Traditions has been accepted for publication in Vernacular
Architecture Vol 53, which is due to come out in February 2023. The project has
also produced a short article available here: The Search for Chamfer Stops




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© 2023 Gloucestershire Dendrochronology Project

If you or your group might be interested in possible involvement in this
project, and would like to discuss or develop any aspects of this proposal
further, please contact: Andy Moir (GBRG Chairman) at: akmoir@tree-ring.co.uk.

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