Editing Tewkesbury Abbey (section)

==The building==
[[File:Tewkesbury abbey 04.JPG|thumb|250px|The nave of Tewkesbury Abbey]]
[[File:Tewkesbury Abbey Lord Ismay Garter Banner 01.JPG|thumb|[[Order of the Garter|Garter]] [[heraldic banner|banner]] of the late [[Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay]] in Tewkesbury Abbey]]
The church itself is one of the finest [[Romanesque architecture|Norman buildings]] in England.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=McAleer |first1=J. Philip |title=The Romanesque Choir of Tewkesbury Abbey and the Problem of a "Colossal Order" |journal=The Art Bulletin |date=1983 |volume=65 |issue=4 |pages=535–558 |doi=10.2307/3050367 |jstor=3050367 }}</ref> Its massive [[crossing tower]] is noted in [[Pevsner Architectural Guides|Pevsner's]] Buildings of England to be "probably the largest and finest [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]] example in England".<ref>{{cite book |last1=David Verey and Alan Brooks |title=The Buildings of England Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and the Forest of Dean |publisher=Yale University Press |pages=713}}</ref> Fourteen of England's cathedrals are of smaller dimensions, while only [[Westminster Abbey]] contains more [[medieval]] [[church monuments]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Row on row |url=https://churchmonumentssociety.org/monument-of-the-month/row-on-row |publisher=Church Monuments Society |access-date=21 July 2020}}</ref>