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Aldbury F W 1880-81, Reading Abbey, its history and architecture. Transactions of the Berkshire Archaeological & Architectural Society Vol I, 65-90.

Ali, Jason R. and Peter Cunich, 2001, The orientation of churches : some new evidence, Antiquaries Journal 81,155 - 193.

Annales Bermundeseia. H. R.Luard (ed), 1865, Annales Monastici. Rolls Series 3 .

Annales Radingenses, in F. Liebermann (ed.), 1879, Ungedruckte anglo-normannische Geschichtsquellen, Strassburg, , 9–12.

Annales Radingenses Posteriores. C.W. Previté-Orton (ed), 1922, Annales Radingenses Posteriores, 1135–1264, English Historical Review 37, 400-03.

Annales Waverleia. H. R.Luard (ed), 1865, Annales Monastici. Rolls Series 2 .

Annales Wintonia. H. R.Luard (ed), 1865, Annales Monastici. Rolls Series 2 .  

Astill G G 1978, Historic Town in Berkshire, Berkshire Archaeological Committee.

Baxter R & S Harrison, 2002, The Decoration of the Cloister at Reading Abbey, in Keen, Lawrence and Eileen Scarff (eds.) Windsor: Medieval Archaeology, Art and Architecture in the Thames Valley, Transactions of the British Archaeological Association, XXV (2002), 302-12.

Berkshire County Council, 1950 plan of cloister area by J L Castle, County Architect, copy held Reading Museum Service.

Board of Health 1840 Plan of Forbury Area, held in County Record Office

Borough of Reading Survey 1834, LMC 621, held in Reading Local Studies Library.

Brigg (William). Grant of the Manor of Aston to Reading Abbey. East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society i. 129-135.

British Library c. 1642, Civil War map of Reading, Add MSS 5415 E 3.

British Library, Sumer is icumen in, Harley MS 978 f 11b. 

Brooke, C N L and D Smith, 2000, Addenda and corrigenda to David Knowles and R Neville Haddock, Mediaeval Religious houses, England and Wales, Monastic Research Bulletin, 6, 1 - 37. 8 -9.

Buckler C A, Notes on Reading Abbey, British Library, Additional Manuscripts 36.400.

Coates A 1999, English Mediaeval Books; The Reading Abbey Collections from Foundation to Dispersal, Oxford, Clarendon Press, Oxford Historical Monographs.

Coates C 1802, The history and antiquities of Reading.

Corley T A B 1996, Jane Austen's schooldays, Jane Austen Society Annual Report 10-20. 

Corley T A B 1998 Jane Austen's "real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school: Mrs La Tournelle and Mrs Goddard. Women's Writing vol 5, no 1, 113-130.

Corley T A B various articles on Victorian industries in Reading, Berkshire Archaeological Journal

Cormier J and L Cram 1983-85, The Holy Brook Culvert, Bridge Street, Reading, Berkshire Archaeological Journal 72, 88.

Cottesloe, The Lord C H M N 1971 `Export of works of art 1970-1971: 18th report of the reviewing committee' HMSO London (Cmnd 4845), 26 pp, pls. 

Cram C L 1988, Reading Abbey, Reading Museum & Art Gallery.

Cram C L 1991, A thirteenth century sculptured stone head found in the precinct wall of Reading Abbey, Antiquaries Journal 71, 223 - 226.

Daniels R 1997, Interpreting Reading Abbey, Unpublished diploma dissertation, copy held in Reading Museum Service

Darter W S 1888, Reminiscences of Reading 16-18.

Darton F J ed. 1910, The Life and Times of Mrs Sherwood, 121, 143, 145. 

Dormier E W 1927, The Stream called the Hallowed Brook at Reading, Berkshire Archaeological Journal , 41(2) 73 -81.

Englefield H 1782, Observations on Reading Abbey. Archaeologia 6, 61-66.

Ettlinger E 1975-76, A Romanesque capital from Reading Abbey in the Reading Museum & Art Gallery, Berkshire Archaeological Journal 68, 71-75.

Fasham, P J & J W Hawkes,  1984 `Reading Abbey waterfront [AD 1175 onwards]' Popular Archaeology 5 (7), January 1984, 37-40.

Fasham, P J & I J Stewart,  1991 `Excavations at Reading Abbey, 1985-6' Berkshire Archaeological  Journal 73, 1986-90 (1991) 88-103. 

Fasham, Pete & John Hawkes,  1983 `Reading Abbey rediscovered [recent excavations of its waterfront, etc]' Trust for Wessex Archaeology/Reading Museum & Art Gallery :Reading.

Fasham, Peter & John Hawkes,  1986 `Reading Abbey waterfront: a summary of the recent archaeological excavations' Trust for Wessex Archaeology: Salisbury.

Fasham P J & J W Hawkes 1985, 'Reading Abbey, a study of the horizontal and vertical movements of an inland waterway' in Herteig, Asbjørn E Ed `Conference on waterfront archaeology in North European towns, No 2, Bergen 1983',  Historisk Museum Bergen, 133-7.

J. M. Guilding, Records of the Borough of Reading & Notable Events.

Guilding J M, 1889 - 1891, Henry the first's tomb in Reading Abbey, Journal of the Berkshire Archaeological & Architectural Society 1, 95-99.

Hawkes, John 1991 `Excavations on the site of Reading Abbey stables, 1983,  Berkshire Archaeological Journal J 73, 1986-90 (1991) 66-87. 

Hawkes J and P J Fasham 1997, Excavations on Reading Watefront Sites, 1979 - 1988, Wessex Archaeology Report 5.

Hill H 1995, Images of Reading and surrounding Villages, Reading Evening Post.

Hinton, M. 1954, A History of the Town of Reading, London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.

Hylton, S. 1992, Reading Places, Reading People, Stroud: Alan Sutton. 

Hurry J B 1901, Reading Abbey, London: Elliot Stock.

Hurry (Dr. Jamieson B.). Reading Abbey. British Archaeological Association, N.S. xii. 40-42.

Hurry, J B no date, notes on paintings. Individual sheets held in  Reading Museum Service.

Hurry, J B, short guide to Reading Abbey.

Kemp B R 1968, Reading Abbey - an introduction to the history of the Abbey, Reading Museum & Art Gallery.

Kemp B R 1970, The miracles of the Hand of St James, Berkshire Archaeological Journal , 65, 1 - 19.

Kemp, B R 1986, Reading Abbey Cartuleries I, Camden Society fourth series 31, Royal Historical Society , London.

Kemp, B R 1987, Reading Abbey Cartuleries II, Camden Society fourth series 33, Royal Historical Society, London.

Kemp, B R 1988, The seals of Reading Abbey, Reading Mediaeval Studies, 14, 139 -162, University of Reading.

Kemp, B R 1990, Addition note on Reading Abbey seals, Reading Mediaeval Studies, 16, 97 - 98, University of Reading.

Kemp, B R 1990, The hand of St James at Reading Abbey, Reading Mediaeval Studies, 16, 77 - 96, University of Reading.

Kemp, Brian and Cecil Slade 1988, Guide to Reading Abbey Friends of Reading Abbey.  

Kerry, C 1883, History of the Municiple Church of St Laurence, Reading.

Keyser, Charles E 1916, Some Norman capitals from Sonning, Berkshire, and some sculptured stones at Shiplake and Windsor Castle, probably brought from Reading Abbey, Proceedings of the Society of  Antiquaries of London 2 ser, 28,  234-44.

Knowles D and R N Haddock, 1971, Mediaeval Religious houses, England and Wales, 3rd edition, Harlow, 74.

MacFarlane A legend of Reading Abbey.

Man J 1816, The History and Antiquities of the Borough of Reading, Reading.

Marr P 1971, Reading Abbey - an introduction to music at the Abbey, Reading Museum & Art Gallery.

Nares (Rev. Robert). Observations on the discovery of part of a sarcophagus at Reading Abbey, in Berkshire, supposed to have contained the remains of King Henry I. Archaeologia xviii. 272-274.

Ordnance Survey 1871, Map of Reading, scale 

Ordnance Survey 1879, Map of Reading XXXVII, 3.9, scale 1-500 

Ordnance Survey 1879, Map of Reading, scale 25' to 1 mile

Ordnance Survey 1883, Map of Reading, scale 6" to 1 mile

Ordnance Survey 1896, Map of Reading, scale 1-500 

Ordnance Survey 1900, Map of Reading, second edition scale 25' to 1 mile

Ordnance Survey 1912, Map of Reading, scale 25' to 1 mile

Ordnance Survey 1931, Map of Reading, scale 25' to 1 mile

Petyt, Malcolm 1993, The Growth of Reading, Alan Sutton.

 Pevsner, N.1966,The Buildings of England. Berkshire. Harmondsworth,  198–99.

Phillips, D. ed. 1985 , Reminisces of Reading by an Octogenarian, Newbury: Countryside Books.

Phillips, D. 1986, Reading old and new, Newbury: Countryside Books and Reading Chronicle.

Phillips, D. revised edition 1990, The Story of Reading, Newbury, Countryside Books.

Piggott F 1785, Gentleman's Magazine November 1785, vol 55, page 881.

Preston A E 1935, The demolition of Reading Abbey, Berkshire Archaeological Journal, 39 (2),107 - 144.

Pride 1790, Map of Reading

Ravenscroft W 1907, The discovery of human remains in the Forbury, Reading. Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Archaeological Journal 13.

Rocque 1761, Map of Berkshire and Reading.  

R. E. Scantlebury, 1943, The Story of Reading Abbey and The Catholic Church in Reading, Reading .

Seaby W A 1933, Discovery of Mediaeval walling in Broad Street. Berkshire Archaeological Journal, 37, 156-60.

Slade C F 1963-64, Reading records 4: documents concerning relations between town and abbey c. 1500 AD, Berkshire Archaeological Journal, 61, 48-62.

Slade C F, 1969, Reading, Historic Towns Series volume I, British Historic Towns Committee.

Slade C F 1969, Paving tiles of Reading Abbey, Berkshire Archaeological Journal, 64, 9-19.

Slade C F 1971-72, Excavations at Reading Abbey 1964-67, Berkshire Archaeological Journal, 66, 65-116.

Slade C F 1975-76, Excavations at Reading Abbey 1971-73, Berkshire Archaeological Journal, 68, 29-70.

Slade C F 2001, The town of Reading and its Abbey, privately printed.

Slade C F. no date Reading Abbey and Reading Town. Manuscript in Berkshire Record Office.

Southerton P 1975. The story of a prison. Osprey Publishing Ltd, Reading.

Southerton P 1988, Reading in Old Photographs, Alan Sutton.

Southerton, P, 1992, Reading in Old Photographs - a second selection , Alan Sutton.

Southerton P, 1993, Reading Gaol by Reading Town, Berkshire Books

Souvenir of Reading, book of photographs, copy held in Reading Museum Service.

Speed, 1610, Map of Buckinghamshire including plan of Reading.  

Spring, Gordon, 1992, Casual ramblings concerning the waterways of early Reading and for those in peril on the canal. Privately printed.

Stevens J 1895, Early effigy found in Reading, Berkshire, Bucks & Oxon Archaeological Journal, 1, 68.

Taylor B 1998, The hand of St James. Berkshire Archaeological Journal, 75, 97-102.

Taylor J Okey 1890, Reading Abbey. Journal of the Berkshire Archaeological & Architectural Society 1, 156-160.

Thurlby M.& R. Baxter, 2002, The Romanesque Abbey Church at Reading, in L. Keen & E. Scarff (eds.), Windsor: Medieval Archaeology, Art and Architecture of the Thames Valley (British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions XXV,  282–301. 

Victoria County History 1906 - 1927, Berkshire, II, 59–73.

Vince A G, P J Fasham and J W Hawkes 1981-82, Excavations at Reading Abbey 1979 and 1981, Berkshire Archaeological Journal 71, 33-55.

Virtue (Right Rev. Bishop). Three MSS, formerly in Reading Abbey and an illuminated MS. book of prayers. Proceedings of the  Society of Antiquaries, 2nd S. xiv. 278-281.

Wheble, J. 1880-1881, 'The Reading Abbey Stone', Berkshire Archaeological and Architectural Society Transactions, 1880–81, 87–90.

Wilde, O, 1898, Ballad of Reading Goal, Leonard Smithers.

 Zarnecki, G, 1949, The Buried Sculpture of Reading Abbey: Chapters of an Archaeological 'Detective Story'', Illustrated London News, April 16, 1949, 524–25.

Zarnecki, G. 1950, 'The Coronation of the Virgin on a Capital from Reading Abbey', Journal of the Warburg & Courtauld Institutes, 13 (1950), 1–12.

Zarnecki G 1951, English Romanesque sculpture 1066-1140. London.

Zarnecki G J Holt & T Holand (eds.) 1984, English Romanesque Art 1066 - 1200, Arts Council. 

Zarnecki G 1991, Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, Kunstchronik October 1991, 611-613.

Zarnecki G 199? The Coronation of the Virgin on a capital at Reading Abbey in Studies in Romanesque sculpture, Pindar Press.

EXCAVATIONS

Fasham, P J & Hawkes, J W 1984 `Reading Abbey waterfront [AD 1175 onwards]' Popular Archaeol 5 (7), Jan 1984 37-40.

 Fasham, P J & I J Stewart,  1991,  Excavations at Reading Abbey, 1985-6, Berkshire Archaeological  Journal 73, 1986-90, 88-103, pls, figs, refs, microfiche (E1-5). 

Fasham, Peter & John Hawkes,  1983 `Reading Abbey rediscovered [recent excavations of its waterfront, etc]' Trust for Wessex Archaeology/Reading Museum & Art Gallery [Reading]

Fasham, Peter & John Hawkes,  1986, Reading Abbey waterfront: a summary of the recent archaeological excavations, Salisbury: Trust for Wessex Archaeology  

Fasham P J & J W Hawkes 1985, 'Reading Abbey, a study of the horizontal and vertical movements of an inland waterway' in Herteig, Asbjørn E Ed `Conference on waterfront archaeology in North European towns, No 2, Bergen 1983' Historisk Museum Bergen, 133-7.

Hawkes, John 1991 `Excavations on the site of Reading Abbey stables, 1983,  Berkshire Archaeological Journal J 73, 1986-90 (1991) 66-87. 

Hawkes J and P J Fasham 1997, Excavations on Reading Watefront Sites, 1979 - 1988, Wessex Archaeology Report 5.

Slade C F 1969, Paving tiles of Reading Abbey, Berkshire Archaeological Journal, 64, 9-19.

Slade C F 1971-72, Excavations at Reading Abbey 1964-67, Berkshire Archaeological Journal, 66, 65-116.

Slade C F 1975-76, Excavations at Reading Abbey 1971-73, Berkshire Archaeological Journal, 68, 29-70.  

Vince A G, P J Fasham and J W Hawkes 1981-82, Excavations at Reading Abbey 1979 and 1981, Berkshire Archaeological Journal 71, 33-55.


MAPS AND PLANS

Berkshire County Council, 1950 plan of cloister area by J L Castle, County Architect, copy held Reading Museum Service.

Board of Health 1840 Plan of Forbury Area held in County Record Office

Borough of Reading Survey 1834, LMC 621 held in Reading Local Studies Library.

British Library c. 1642, Civil War map of Reading Add MSS 5415 E 3.

Coates C 1802, The history and antiquities of Reading. 

Englefield H 1782, Observations on Reading Abbey. Archaeologia 6, 64.

Ordnance Survey 1871, Map of Reading, scale 

Ordnance Survey 1879, Map of Reading XXXVII, 3.9, scale 1-500 

Ordnance Survey 1879, Map of Reading, scale 25' to 1 mile

Ordnance Survey 1883, Map of Reading, scale 6" to 1 mile

Ordnance Survey 1896, Map of Reading, scale 1-500 

Ordnance Survey 1900, Map of Reading, second edition scale 25' to 1 mile

Ordnance Survey 1912, Map of Reading, scale 25' to 1 mile

Ordnance Survey 1931, Map of Reading, scale 25' to 1 mile.

Rocque 1761, Map of Berkshire and Reading.

Speed, 1610 Map of Buckinghamshire including plan of Reading.  

SCULPTURE

Ettlinger E 1975-76, A Romanesque capital from Reading Abbey in the Reading Museum & Art Gallery, Berkshire Archaeological Journal 68, 71-75.

Thurlby M. & R. Baxter, 2002, The Romanesque Abbey Church at Reading, in L. Keen & E. Scarff (eds.), Windsor: Medieval Archaeology, Art and Architecture of the Thames Valley (British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions XXV,  282–301. 

Zarnecki, G.1949,  'The Buried Sculpture of Reading Abbey: Chapters of an Archaeological 'Detective Story'', Illustrated London News, April 16, 1949, 524–25.

Zarnecki, G. 1950, 'The Coronation of the Virgin on a Capital from Reading Abbey', Journal of the Warburg & Courtauld Institutes, 13 (1950), 1–12.

Zarnecki G 1951, English Romanesque sculpture 1066-1140. London.

Zarnecki G J Holt & T Holand (eds.) 1984, English Romanesque Art 1066 - 1200, Arts Council. 

Zarnecki G 1991, Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, Kunstchronik October 1991, 611-613.

Zarnecki G 199? The Coronation of the Virgin on a capital at Reading Abbey in Studies in Romanesque sculpture, Pindar Press.
 

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