Gloucester’s great Cloister is famous for its magnificent fan vaulting, which is believed to be the earliest example in England.
Originally built to house the monks, it provided space for them to live, work and meditate. In many abbeys, the cloisters were traditionally built on the south side, but at Gloucester, it unusually lies on the [...]
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19 Comments CherryPie on Mar 4th 2016
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Gloucester Cathedral – The West Window
At the entrance to Gloucester Cathedral, the West Window is a prominent feature. Although my photographs don’t capture the details well, the window depicts Biblical scenes.
The glass we see today was installed in 1859 as a memorial to Dr J. H. Monk, Bishop of Gloucester from 1830 to 1856. It was made by the large [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Mar 3rd 2016
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Robert Duke of Normandy
Eldest son of William the Conqueror, and benefactor of Gloucester Abbey. He died in 1134 at Cardiff Castle, a prisoner of his youngest brother, King Henry I.
6 Comments CherryPie on Mar 2nd 2016
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Gloucester Cathedral – The Chapel of St Thomas
The vivid glass, by Tom Denny, was commissioned in 1990 and installed in 1992 to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the beginning of Abbot Serlo’s building of the new abbey in 1089. The theme of the windows is that of ‘praise’. Tom’s inspiration being Psalm 148: ‘Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise him in [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Mar 1st 2016
An intimate space for worship and contemplation, Gloucester Cathedral’s magnificent Lady Chapel was the last part of the church to be built during the Medieval period in the 15th century.
Dedicated to ‘Our Lady’, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, the Lady Chapel is unique in its design and decoration.
It has a vaulted roof [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 29th 2016
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Gloucester Cathedral
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 27th 2016
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Gloucester Cathedral
Gloucester Cathedral has been a place of Christian worship continuously for over 1,300 years, since Osric, an Anglo-Saxon prince, founded a religious house here in 678-9 AD. Little is known for certain about the communities which worshipped here or the buildings they used over the next 400 years although it is believed that the Benedictine [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Feb 26th 2016
