Great Malvern is an area of the spa town of Malvern, Worcestershire, England.
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18 Facts About Great Malvern
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Great Malvern is a seat of local government, being the location of the headquarters of Malvern Town Council, the Malvern Hills Conservators and Malvern Hills AONB Partnership, and Malvern Hills District Council.
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Great Malvern is approximately 8 miles south-west of the city of Worcester, on the eastern slopes of the Malvern Hills.
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Legend tells that the settlement began following the murder of St Werstan, a monk of Deerhurst, who escaped and fled through the Great Malvern Chase, finding sanctuary on the Great Malvern Hills and establishing a hermitage near St Ann's Well.
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Large estates in Great Malvern were part of crown lands given to Gilbert "the Red", the seventh Earl of Gloucester and sixth Earl of Hertford, on his marriage to Joan of Acre the daughter of Edward I, in 1290.
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Godfrey, who had granted land to the Priory, had jurisdictional disputes about Great Malvern Priory, resolved by Robert Burnell, the current Chancellor.
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The discussion mentions Thomas Walsingham's view that Great Malvern was a hiding place of the Lollard knight Sir John Oldcastle in 1414.
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Chambers wrote, in relation to the stained glass, "the situation of Great Malvern was so much admired by Henry VII, his Queen and their two Sons, Prince Arthur, and Prince Henry" that they made substantial endowments.
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Accordingly, Great Malvern Priory survived by being acquired by a William Pinnocke and with it, much of its 15th-century stained glass windows.
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Chambers, in his book about Great Malvern, praised Elizabeth, Countess Harcourt, whose patronage contributed to the development of hillside walks.
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Great Malvern Theatres, housed in the Winter Gardens complex in the town centre, is a provincial centre for the arts.
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Great Malvern is the setting for several episodes in Jonathan Coe's 2004 novel The Closed Circle.
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In 1969 Great Malvern was designated a Conservation Area by the Local Authority in recognition of the architecture which includes Stuccoed, Classical, Victorian, Regency, Edwardian, Gothic Revival and Italianate styled buildings.
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Much architecture and statuary in the town centre is dedicated to Great Malvern water, including the St Ann's Well, which is housed in a building dating from 1813.
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Sir Edward Elgar, British composer and Master of the King's Musick, lived much of his life around Great Malvern and is buried in Little Great Malvern Roman Catholic churchyard.
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Great Malvern was music director at Malvern College and director of the early Elgar Festivals in Malvern.
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Works of art in Great Malvern include fountains, statues, and Malvern water spouts by the sculptor Rose Garrard.
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Great Malvern College is a coeducational public school, founded in 1865.
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