Blanche Parry

Reference Books include:

  • Nikolaus Pevsner, 'The Buildings of England: Herefordshire', 1963, reprinted, updated.
  • Eilbert Ekwall, 'The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place–Names', 1936, updated.
  • Bruce Coplestone–Crow, 'Herefordshire Place–Names', 2009.
  • Sarah & John Zaluckyj, 'The Celtic Christian Sites of the central and southern Marches', 2006.
  • Ella Mary Leather, 'The Folk–lore of Herefordshire', 1912, reprinted 2018.
  • Joan Fleming–Yates, 'Knights Templars and Hospitallers in the Manor of Garway'1995.
  • Helen Jane Nicholson, 'The Templars in Britain: Garway and South Wales', 2013 abstract of paper available at ORCA
  • The Golden Valley Study Group, 'The Man who Drowned the Meadows, Rowland Vaughan 1558–1627', see chapter 2 authored by Ruth E. Richardson with research contributions by Sue Hubbard.
  • Ruth E. Richardson, 'Mistress Blanche Queen Elizabeth I's Confidante', second edition 2018.
  • Ruth E. Richardson, 'Blanche Parry & Queen Elizabeth I', book calendar, 2012.
  • Ruth E. Richardson & Chris. Musson, 'Herefordshire Past & Present, An Aerial View', 2011.
  • Keith Ray. 'The Archaeology of Herefordshire, An Exploration', 2015.
  • Ron Shoesmith and Ruth E. Richardson, editors, 'A Definitive History of Dore Abbey'. 1997. Also Dore Abbey Archive and guidebook in the Church.
  • Reverend A.T. Bannister,'History of Ewias Harold', 1902.
  • Rev. Charles J. Robinson, 'Castles of Herefordshire and their Lords', republished 2002.
  • Derry Babbs, 'Abbeys and Monasteries ', 1999.
  • Richard Wheeler, 'The Medieval Church Screens of the Southern Marches'. 2006.
  • Graham Downie, 'Hereford May Fair', 2021, pub. Fairground Association of Great Britain with support of the Showmen's Guild of Great Britain.
  • Timothy Mowl & Brian Earnshaw, 'Architect of Obsession, John Wood and the Creation of Georgian Bath', 1988, 2022. Re: Tyberton Church.
  • Robert Walker, 'The Medieval Stained Glass of Herefordshire & Shropshire', 2023
  • Martin Cook & Neil Kidd, 'The March of Ewyas, The Story of Longtown Castle and the de Lacy Dynasty', 2020
  • See also various websites including:

Church Poem

Seen on a board outside the little Church of the Holy Cross in Mwnt, Ceredigion, Wales:

When I see a little Church I pay a little visit

So when at last I’m carried in

The Lord won’t say who is it...

Contributors: Ruth E. Richardson (also editor), Penny Platts, Sue Hubbard (2022)

Please do contact Ruth E. Richardson with additional, accurate, information or relevant comments, through blancheparry.co.uk. Thank you.

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