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religious membership foundation and the guild in Stratford-upon-Avon became a powerful societal force. Members paid fees to join and a range of services were provided, including a hospital and a school, the provision of a priest to pray for the dead, as well as support for the poor. Within the town,
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Clopton's wall-paintings depicted a cycle of images showing, among others, the Doom, the Allegory of Death, the Life of Adam and St George Slaying the Dragon. They were covered over by John Shakespeare some time in the 1560s-1570s, acting as town chamberlain and in accordance with
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Clopton undertook a major expansion of the chapel before his death in 1496, constructing a new nave which was incomplete when he died. The chapel was restored in a thirty-year programme undertaken by
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in the early 21st century and making innovative use of digital modelling, described the chapel as "one of Europe's most important surviving late-medieval Guild Chapels".
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injunction of 1559 to remove "all signs of superstition and idolatry from places of worship". John Shakespeare's contemporary record details his paying two
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before 1269, it passed into the control of the town corporation in 1553, when the Guild was suppressed by
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A major programme of archaeological investigation, carried out by the Department of Archaeology at the
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for "defasyng ymages in ye chapel". The wall-paintings were rediscovered under
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The Art of Solidarity in the Middle Ages: Guilds in England 1250-1550
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on Church Street and the adjacent chapel was built circa 1260.
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in 1804 and were recorded by the antiquarian and draughtsman
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and tower dating from Hugh Clopton's rebuilding on c.1490.
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Location of Guild Chapel of the Holy Cross in Warwickshire
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is a chapel of 13th-century origins. Founded by the
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Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
52°11′26″N 1°42′28″W / 52.1905°N 1.7077°W / 52.1905; -1.7077
Perpendicular
Listed Building
Guild Chapel is located in Warwickshire
Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
Guild of the Holy Cross
Edward VI
William Shakespeare
New Place
wall-paintings
Hugh Clopton
John Shakespeare
Stephen Dykes Bower
Grade I listed building
King Edward VI School
Guild of the Holy Cross
medieval
guildhall
Elizabeth I's
shillings
limewash
Thomas Fisher
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings

University of York
curfew

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