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Gloucester Cathedral, or the Cathedral Church of St Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity, in Gloucester, England, stands in the north of the city near the river. It originated in 678 or 679 with the foundation of an abbey dedicated to Saint Peter (dissolved by King Henry VIII). The foundations of the present church were laid by Abbot Serlo (1072–1104). The cathedral, built as the abbey church, consists of a Norman nucleus (Walter de Lacy is buried there), with additions in every style of Gothic architecture. It is 420 feet (130 m) long, and 144 feet (44 m) 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, a famous landmark. The nave is massive Norman with an Early English roof; the crypt, under the choir, aisles and chapels, is Norman, as is the chapter house. The crypt is one of the four apsidal cathedral crypts in England, the others being at Worcester, Winchester and Canterbury.

The west front

The 69m 15th century tower with parapets and corner pinnacles

Gloucester cathedral and Tudor house

The South porch

The four evangelists with St Peter and St Paul by Redfern in the niches above the entrance of the South porch

The 15th century south porch Stone figure of the Norman monk Serlo who founded the abbey in 1089

Figure of King Osric (maybe) founder of original Abbey of St Peter in 681St. Gregory

The unremarkable west front

Perpendicular tracery and spirelets on the west front

Tower with south transept, quire and south ambulatory

Buttressing and somewhat strange joints between Lady Chapel and presbytery

St Mary de Crypt. Gloucester. XII s

Bishop Hooper's

Monument

Tower and the elevation of the presbytery from the south-east

The east window of the Lady Chapel, looking west from the southeast

The tower seen from the northeast

The cathedral looking west from the northeast

Gloucester cathedral cloister Garth

Lady Chapel

Birds feeding each other. Capital in Gloucester cathedral west entrance

Gloucester cathedral, the nave

The low Romanesque triforium and early

perpendicular clerestory

Arcade, triforium, clerestory, and early

English vault in the nave

Gloucester cathedral, the nave

The organ above the pulpitum as seen from the nave

The Romanesque nave with two perpendicular bays at the west end

Cathedral FlowersJuly 2011

Gloucester Cathedral Flower FestivalJuly 2011

Floral carpet entitled Monument to Osric who was a Prince of Mercia and founded the first religious house on the site in 679

Stained glasses west window, 1420 tracery and Victorian glass by William Wailes

The West Window with scenes from the life of Christ, 1420

Annunciation and Noli Me Tangere Stained-Glass Madonna with Child Stained-GlassThe coronation of King Henry III stained-glass by Clayton and Bell, 1860

Perpendicular bay in the otherwise Romanesque nave

Romanesque nave

Lierne vaulting above the two westernmost bays

Springing of the Tierceron Ribs with Liernes and Bosses

The lierne vault with bosses of the crossing

seen from the south transept

The vast Norman columns of the Southern aisle

arcade

The arcading with small triforium and

clerestory, south aisle, looking east

The Cathedral bookshop in one of the perpendicular bays in the nave

Sarah Morley's tombstone

….Impelled by a tender and conscientious Solicitude to discharge her parental Duties in person, She embarked with her young Family when their Health and Education required their removal to England and having sustained the pains of Child-birth at Sea she died a few days after that event on the 25th. of May 1784, in the twenty-ninth year of her Age. Of seven Children, the Issue of her Marriage, one Son and three Daughters survived to lament the untimely Loss of an invaluable Mother

Two bays of the south aisle seen from the north aisle

Wood pulpit in the nave

The Romanesque nave

The south aisle looking west to the

cathedral shop

Flying buttresses visible in the support

arches around the central crossing

The Blessed Sacrament hanging over the altar in the 15th century Seabroke chantry

Effigy of Thomas Seabroke, abbot from 1450 to 1457

Funerary monument

Painted monument to

Thomas Machen and

his Wife Christian in the north transept

Carved corbel with distorted face on the 13th century

The clock by Henry Wilson in the north transept

Mid 13th century screen in the North transept with entrance to the treasury

The north ambulatory entrance to St Paul's

Chapel in the North transept

Stars and Stripes and Union Flag fly over the memorial to John Stafford Smith (composer of US anthem)

The north aisle

Quadripartite vaulting of the north aisle

Stained-glass window with perpendicular tracery in the north transept

Stained-glass with martyrs in the north transept. Details

Perpendicular window tracery and stained-glass in the north transept

Elizabeth Williams' tomb, who died in childbirth (1622)

John Bower and his wife's tomb, with their nine sons and seven daughters

The effigy of Robert Duke of NormandyRobert Curthose was the eldest son of William the Conqueror. He mortgaged the Duchy of Normandy to his brother William II King of England in order to raise the money necessary to participate in the First Crusade (1096–1099). On returning from the crusade he was in the process of marrying a wealthy wife, when his brother William died, and his youngest brother Henry I seized the English throne.1 Robert invaded England to reclaim the throne in 1101 the resulting struggle between the two brothers lasted five years until Henry I won a decisive victory at the battle of Tinchebray in Normandy. Robert was captured and held prisoner at Devizes Castle and later at Cardif Castle where he was held until his death in 1134.

King Edward II burial in Gloucester Cathedral

King Edward II effigy

View to the west from Gloucester cathedral tower. To the left, St Nicholas; to the right, St Mary de Lode

Sound: Jan Garbarek - Sanctus

Text: Internet

Pictures: Branislav L. Slantchev and Antonio Mª Cabrera

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Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu

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