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The Grade I Listed Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, Gloucestershire.

Gloucester Cathedral, or in full the Cathedral Church of St Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity in Gloucester, stands in the north of the city near the River Severn. It originated in 678 or 679 with the foundation of an abbey dedicated to Saint Peter.

The foundations of the present church were laid by Abbot Serlo. Walter Gloucester, the Cathedral’s historian, became its first mitred abbot in 1381. Until 1541, Gloucester lay in the see of Worcester, but the separate see was then constituted, with John Wakeman, last abbot of Tewkesbury, as its first bishop.

The cathedral has a stained-glass window containing the earliest images of golf. This dates from 1350, over 300 years earlier than the earliest image of golf from Scotland. There is also a carved image of people playing a ball game, believed by some to be one of the earliest images of medieval football.

The cathedral, built as the abbey church, consists of a Norman nucleus with additions in every style of Gothic architecture. It is 420 feet long, and 144 feet wide, with a fine central tower of the 15th century rising to the height of 225 ft (69 m) and topped by four delicate pinnacles.

The most notable monument is the canopied shrine of King Edward II of England who was murdered at nearby Berkeley Castle. The building and sanctuary were enriched by the visits of pilgrims to this shrine. In a side-chapel is a monument in coloured bog oak of Robert Curthose, eldest son of William the Conqueror and a great benefactor of the abbey, who was interred there.

Information Source:
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Taken in: UK / England / Gloucester District / Gloucester (show map)

Taken on: July 5, 2014

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