Re: VMs: More about Abbot Bere / Beere...

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

> From Leland's account, it would seem we know exactly where Beere was 
> buried: under a marble floor in the South Aisle of the Chapel of the 
> Sepulcher (which he had built), in its South End Nave.

Here's the streetmap.co.uk map of the Glastonbury Abbey area:-
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?grid2map?x=350250&y=138750&zoom=2&isp=200&ism=500&arrow=y?36,101

And here's a nice tourist-friendly map of the Abbey grounds themselves:-
        http://www.glastonburyabbey.com/groundsmap.php

Putting the two together, it looks like the tourist map has been drawn 
facing roughly South-East, so South would be off in the direction of the 
top-right corner.

I'd be very grateful if anyone who is better at interpreting church ruins 
than I am (that's probably 90% of you) would be so kind as to make an 
educated guess at where on the tourist map Leland would have been describing?

On that map, the Nave is marked as (9) - to my (uneducated) eyes, this 
looks like it would have been on the South side of the building there, next 
to the cloisters (14). I have a dim archaeological memory of bishops and 
abbots often being buried near the entrance to cloisters - is that roughly 
where I should go?

All suggestions and comments welcome!

Thanks, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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