Anthony Mason's Pictures of Pershore Abbey
(4 total)Pershore Abbey Pictures
Looking towards Pershore Abbey | Photograph taken with a EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY KODAK DX7630 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA There are no comments on this picture 1 person has added this picture to their favourites This picture appears in the following picture tours: Pershore, Street Scenes, Pershore Abbey, Abbeys & Cathedrals |
Pershore Abbey, Pershore, Worcestershire Pershore Abbey, Worcestershire | Photograph taken with a EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY KODAK DX7630 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA There are no comments on this picture Remnant of a once magnificent Pershore Abbey, WorcestershireThis picture appears in the following picture tours: Pershore Abbey, Abbeys & Cathedrals, Pershore, Worcestershire |
Pershore Abbey, Worcestershire, George Mason baptism 1629 | Photograph taken with a EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY KODAK DX7630 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA There are no comments on this picture The remnants of a once magnificent Pershore Abbey. One of the most famous people to have been baptised at this church of the 'Holy Cross' was George Mason, son of Thomas Mason & Ann French.
George Mason was baptised 02/June/1629. His family were later involved in fighting on the Royalist side during the English Civil War. In 1651 George and his brother William fled the country to America. George Mason founded a great estate in Virginia USA and his grandson later became involved in Virginian politics writing the state's declaration of rights in 1776. This document became the model for Thomas Jefferson's later Declaration of Independence..... This picture appears in the following picture tours: Pershore Abbey, Abbeys & Cathedrals, Pershore |