Abbey Archive
The majority of the Abbey Archives have been deposited in the Gloucestershire County and Diocesan Archives in Gloucester and are not kept at Tewkesbury Abbey.
Details of these holdings can be found in the Gloucestershire Archives online catalogue Website at www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/archives.
For those researching their family history it may be helpful to know that all Tewkesbury Abbey Parish Registers prior to the dates given below are at Gloucester: –
Baptism Registers 05/04/1980
Confirmation Registers 11/05/1997
Banns Registers 30/11/1958
Marriage Registers 18/06/1988
Burial/Funeral Registers* 29/12/1992
Registers after these dates are held at the Abbey and may be consulted by appointment.
* The Main Abbey Churchyard was closed with effect from 1 February 1857, and from then onwards the majority of burials were in the town cemetery. A very small number of burials was permitted after this date, and since 1941 cremated remains have been interred in the churchyard.
The vast majority of Parish Registers for the whole of the Diocese of Gloucester, up to the beginning of the twentieth century, have been digitised and are available on a subscription family history website.
The latest dates for the transcribed Abbey registers are as follows: –
Baptisms 26/10/1913
Confirmations 27/03/1906
Banns 27/03/1938
Marriages 26/12/1938
Burials/Funerals 14/09/1987
Monumental inscriptions on gravestones and tombs in the Abbey Churchyard
Monumental inscriptions on gravestones and monuments in the Abbey
The above include monumental inscriptions recorded in the nineteenth century but no longer legible.
Biographical details of Abbey Organists
If you have any questions regarding the Abbey Archives, please email the Abbey Archivist at archive@tewkesburyabbey.org.uk