Gloucester, England
Historic Sites & Landmarks in Gloucester, England
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Gloucester Cathedral
Gloucester, England
Founded in 1100 as a Norman abbey, Gloucester Cathedral boasts a huge medieval stained glass window, an elegant interior and one of the finest cloisters in the country.
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St. Nicholas Church
Gloucester, England
The parish church of St Nicholas, patron saint of sailors and merchants, was built in 1190 and expanded in the 15th century. Its tall tower has a truncated spire and a noticeable lean.
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St. Oswald's Priory
Gloucester, England
900
One wall is all that remains of the New Minster founded by St Aethelflaed in 900, which contained the holy relics of St Oswald of Northumbria. It became an Augustinian priory in 1152.
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Llanthony Swing Bridge
Gloucester, England
Railway swing bridge. Constructed 1910, from 1890 Great Western Railway designs. Plate-girder steel swing bridge that pivoted on drum on south eastern bank and rested on two cylindrical iron-clad piers on north west side of river.
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Folk Museum
Gloucester, England
Town house, later shop, now museum. Brick, stone, timber frame, slate roof with end-gables and cross-gabled dormers, two end-gable brick stacks.
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93 and 95, Westgate Street
Gloucester, England
Pair of shops and former dwellings. C18 but may incorporate earlier structure, C19 and C20 alterations.
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Folk Museum (Bishop Hoopers Lodging)
Gloucester, England
Merchant's house. c1500, probably for a master clothier; C17 addition at rear heightened in C18; other minor alterations and additions of various dates; 1933 restored and converted for use as folk museum for Gloucester City Council.
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Cider House to E of Corner of Folk Museum Courtyard
Gloucester, England
Includes: No.2 QUAY STREET. Workshop and warehouse incorporating walls of a C18 coach house, later slaughter house, now museum annexe. c1830.
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Pin Factory Annexe of Folk Museum
Gloucester, England
Barn, later factory, now museum annexe. Mid C16, partly rewalled in C17 and remodelled in late C18 for use as pin factory; restored as workshop for Folk Museum by Gloucester City Council after 1935.
