Gloucestershire Photos by Hetty
20th October 2023
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9th September 2022
Near the cathedral is the Bishop Hooper Memorial, on the site where he was burnt at the stake in 1555.
St Mary’s gateway to the cathedral
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26th January 2016
I visited Gloucester Cathedral with the U3A Photography Group on a wet day – so few outdoor photos.
My camera did well considering the low lighting levels and no tripod.
Osric, Prince of Mercia founded a religious house here 678-9, which became a Benedictine monastery in the early 1000s. The present building was started in 1089, and replaced the Anglo-Saxon one.
The tower from the cloisters
At the entrance
The Nave with Norman pillars (from 1089 to 1130).The stone vaulted roof (completed in 1242) replaced a wooden one. The organ was built in 1665
1860 window shows King Henry III being crowned at Gloucester in 1216, aged 9 years
Monument to Sir George Onesiphorus Paul (died 1820), prison reformer, born near Stroud
Thomas Seabroke – Abbot 1450 to 1457 
Kyneburga, Osric’s sister – Abbess of Gloucester 679 to 710 (new statue)
The Mater Mason is horrified to see an apprentice fall from above
Knitivity at St Andrew’s Chapel
This chapel was decorated in 1868, but the abbey would have been brightly painted in medieval times
Robert of Normandy (son of William the Conqueror), was an early benefactor of the abbey
1992 stained glass
The Lady Chapel (1470s) with Norman font (1130). 
On left is Judge John Powell (1713), and on right is Elizabeth Williams (1622) who died in childbirth
Modern stained glass
This window commemorates Ivor Gurney (local poet)
c. 1530 monument to Prince Osric, holding a model of his church
1330 monument to King Edward II, who died in Berkeley Castle. As he was buried here, Henry VIII kept the cathedral when he dissolved the monastery. During the Civil War the Mayor and burgesses of Gloucester saved the cathedral from being demolished
The lion at King Edward’s II’s feet
The Quire was remodelled in the 1340s. The Great East Window c. 1350 is about the size of a tennis court. The redos behind the altar is Victorian
Entrance to the treasury
More memorials:
John Bower, apothecary, (1615), wife Ann & Children
An astronomical clock, 1903
Alderman Thomas Machen, wife Christian and children (c 1615)
Sarah Morley (1784) – she died at sea in childbirth on a passage from India
Alderman John Jones (1630)
The West Window – rebuilt c.1430; 1859 glass
Monument to Edward Jenner
The Cloisters – fan vaulting was invented here in 1350s
The Chapter House 
On the left are the Carrels where the monks studied
The Lavatorium – washing area
Part of Kings school
The Crypt
Victorian Font