Oct 17, 2010 Posted by Ian McKendrick

Follow your own spiritual path – Gloucester Cathedral

Tweet Tip 16 – Follow Your Own Spiritual Path This spot has been a place of Christian worship for over 1300 years since Osric, an Anglo Saxon prince founded the site of the cathedral in 678 AD. By 1066 there was a thriving monastery here which by 1089 was being extended to the magnificent abbey church we see today. In 1216 Henry the Third was crowned here and in 1541 the Abbey church became a... read more

Aug 15, 2010 Posted by Ian McKendrick

Carpe Diem – Sieze the Day – St Mary’s Gate Gloucester

Tweet Tip 64 – ‘Carpe Diem’ – Seize the Day “St Mary’s Gate” or the “Great Gate” is centrally located at the mid-point of the western abbey wall within the Gloucester Cathedral precincts. It is the main gate that leads to the medieval abbey and on the same axis as the Bishop Hooper monument and St Mary de Lode church. The room above St Mary’s Gate was used by the Cathedral’s... read more