Group Of Three Monuments Approximately 20 Metres North Of North Wall Of Abbey Nave

This group of three monuments, located approximately 20 metres north of the north wall of the Abbey nave in Tewkesbury, dates from the 18th and 19th centuries.

The first monument is a chest tomb from 1788 made of sandstone, dedicated to George Vernon, who died in 1788 at the age of 17. It features a flat ledger slab with moulded edges, raised panels, and a flared cavetto base on a platform. Additional inscriptions on the ledger commemorate Thomas, who died in infancy in 1805, and Susannah, who died in 1807 at the age of 2 weeks, among others up to 1973. The inscriptions on the south and east sides appear to have been recut.

The second monument is an upright chest tomb from the mid-19th century, also made of sandstone, dedicated to William Moore and others. It has a flat pyramidal ledger with leaf enrichment along the edges, moulded edges, raised panels, and inset ends leading to a moulded cornice and base, all resting on a cavetto base and sharing a platform with the Merrett monument.

The third monument is another chest tomb from 1833, made of sandstone, dedicated to Thomas Merrett and others. It features a flat ledger slab with moulded edges, raised panels, and inset ends, all aligned to a common cornice mould, resting on a bulbous ovolo-mould base and sharing a platform with the adjacent Moore monument.