Gloucester Cathedral

Gloucester, United Kingdom

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The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Gloucester Cathedral in England, formally the Cathedral Church of St Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity, stands in the north of Gloucester near the River Severn. Though the site originated with a minster founded around 679, the present building was begun by Abbot Serlo in approximately 1089, following a major fire the previous year. Serlo's construction transformed the abbey's fortunes through rising revenues and royal patronage. After another fire in 1222, an ambitious rebuilding programme commenced; the 14th-century reconstruction of the choir, transepts, and cloisters displays the earliest surviving example of structural fan vaulting. The cathedral houses the shrine of Edward II and contains notable Norman and Gothic architecture. Following Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries in 1536, the abbey was refounded as a cathedral. Both the building and associated structures within the complex are Grade I listed.