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Voysey House,
Barley Mow Passage
London W4 4GF
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8742 3355
USA: 1-800-988-6168
Canada: (647) 382 1644
Australia: 1300 55 95 95
New Zealand: 61-7-3377-0141
The Welsh Marches - Castles, Abbeys & Parish Churches
- Well-balanced survey of the outstanding mediaeval monuments of the Welsh Marches.
- Churches and castles from Norman to late Perpendicular.
- Beautiful drives through rolling verdant landscapes.
ITINERARY
DAY 1
Worcester—the coach leaves Worcester Shrub Hill railway station at 2.00pm—Worcester cathedral, proud possessor of the earliest centrally-planned chapter-house in England as well as a majestic early Anglo-Norman crypt, historiated cloister, and early 13th-cent. presbytery and choir—drive into Wales—first of three nights in Abergavenny.
DAY 2
Monmouth, Chepstow, Tintern, Raglan—a day along the river Wye beginning at the fortified bridge at Monmouth—the planning of Chepstow crystallises the classic pattern of Norman conquest and settlement, as adumbrated in what remains of the most magnificently fortified castle—Tintern is a dazzling amalgam of piers, tracery, dwarf walls and dispersed stonework overshadowed by a stupendous west front—Raglan is the most enthralling of late mediaeval Welsh castles.
DAY 3
Abergavenny, Abbey Dore, Rowlstone—Abergavenny Priory is famed for the quality and range of its late mediaeval choir stalls and the tombs of the Hastings lords of Abergavenny—drive across the Black Mountains to the delightful castle and manor house at Tretower Court—the Cistercian abbey at Abbey Dore has a stunning choir—end with the tiny jewel-like Romanesque parish church at Rowlstone—overnight Abergavenny.
DAY 4
Kilpeck, Leominster, Ludlow, Stokesay—Kilpeck is perhaps the best known of all English Romanesque parish churches, and certainly the most beautifully sculpted—en route take in the rangy and heterogeneous spaces of Leominster Priory—St Mary’s Ludlow is the epitome of a great late mediaeval Marcher parish church—end at the amazingly well-preserved late 13th-cent. residence at Stokesay Castle—overnight near Shrewsbury.
DAY 5
Acton Burnell, Buildwas, Much Wenlock, Haughmond—Acton Burnell is an impressive manor house built by Edward I’s Chancellor—a trio of monastic sites: Cistercian Buildwas, Cluniac Wenlock Priory and Augustinian Haughmond, all sustaining substantial elements of their late 12th-cent. fabric and offering contrasting answers to the question of how to lay out a monastic precinct in a well-watered landscape—overnight near Shrewsbury.
DAY 6
Bridgnorth, Rock—drive along the borders of Shropshire and Worcestershire—visit the ruins of the last of Roger Montgomery’s great castles at Bridgnorth—at Rock is the most important of Worcestershire’s Romanesque parish churches—end at Worcester Shrub Hill station by 12.45pm.
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The Angel [hotel] in Abergavenny was exceptionally nice. 
B. B., London
Our lecturer was first class in every way. Erudite, charming, helpful. H. B., London
Varied and a well thought out itinerary, so that the distance travelled by coach did not seem too long. K. K., Cambridgeshire
Thank you for an excellent tour which was exactly what I was hoping for. B. F., Aberdeenshire
It was all I had hoped for. I’ll never again waste money on the type of tours you get through commercial travel agents. B. F., Canberra
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