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Gloucester Cathedral
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Gloucester Cathedral
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 (10721104). 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.
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The beautiful tower over the central crossing and
north transept loom over the cloister garth
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The cloister garden
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The cloister garth looking north-west toward the
lavatorium The cloisters at Gloucester are the
earliest surviving fan vaults, having been
designed between 1351 and 1377 by Thomas de
Cambridge. Gloucesters historic cathedral
cloisters were transformed into the corridors of
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in
the films of JK Rowlings first two books Harry
Potter and the Philosophers Stone and Harry
Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
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The Cloister Fan vaults
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The magnificent fan vaulting in the cloister
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Fan vaulting, Gloucester cathedral Cloister
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The south walk of the fan-vaulted cloister
looking east
The west walk of the cloister with fan vaulting,
looking north
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The Cloister Fan vaults
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The Cloister Fan vaults
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The carrels in the south walk of the cloister,
looking west
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Carrels in the cloister
Detail of the fan vaulting in the cloister
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Stained-glass in the cloister
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Stained-glass details from the cloister
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Female saints on a stained-glass window at the
north end of the west walk of the cloister
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The carved fan vaulting in the cloister
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The cloister lavatorium in the north walk
Victorian Hardman Stained-glass in the cloister
lavatorium
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The lavatorium in the cloister looking west
Christ with angels stained-glass at the north end
of the west walk of the cloister
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Fan and decorative tracery in the north walk of
the cloister
The stunning cloister, looking east in the north
walk
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Corbel portrait of a recent dean on a buttress in
the cloister garth
Perpendicular tracery on a window in the cloister
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The central crossing seen from the south transept
The lierne vaulting of the Quire seen from the
south transept
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Looking northwest to the central crossing from
the south transept
The ogee arch entrance to the north ambulatory
chapel.
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Alderman Abraham Blackleech (1639) Gertrude.
Black marble tomb chest with alabaster recumbent
effigies. By Epiphanius Evesham or Edward Marshall
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Angels playing and singing, stained glass in the
south transept
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Abbot Seabroke with S Barbara, S Luke, and Fra
Angelico, stained-glass in the south transept
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The original Norman groined vault of the south
ambulatory
The Quire looking west from the presbytery
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The stunning Great East 'Crecy' Window from the
14th century
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The Crecy Window with apostles, saints and
martyrs, abbots and bishops, and shields The
great east window is the second largest area of
medieval glass in any British church window,
measuring 72ft high by 38ft wide, it was put
together in the mid 14th century and shows the
monks view of the divine order, the  structure of
their society in this life and beyond.
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The elaborate lierne vault of the presbytery and
quire
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Gloucester cathedral, The quire vaults
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Lierne vault of the presbytery profusely
decorated with bosses
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Lierne presbytery vault with Christ in glory
surrounded by bosses with angels
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View from the Sebrok pavement of the presbytery
looking west toward the quire
Abbot Sebrok's pavement in the presbytery - the
sacrifice of Abraham
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The quadruple sedilia with lavish canopies on the
south wall of the presbytery
The perpendicular presbytery with the great east
window and the lierne vaulting
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The north ambulatory
The parapet of the sedilia in the presbytery with
angels playing musical instruments
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The high altar and the reredos by George Gilbert
Scott beneath the Crecy window in the presbytery
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The reredos with Nativity, Ascension, and
Deposition, designed by George Gilbert Scott,
behind the high altar
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Deposition detail from the reredos behind the
high altar in the presbytery
Stained-glass in the South Ambulatory Chapel by
Tom Denny with Doubting Thomas
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The Norman lead font from the 12th century at the
entrance of the Lady Chapel
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Carved and painted entrance ceiling in the Lady
Chapel
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The altar and stunning modern altarpiece with
paintings by Ian McKillop in the Lady Chapel
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Detail from the altarpiece painting by Ian
McKillop in the Lady Chapel
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Stained-glass commemorating organists of the
cathedral in the Lady Chapel
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Celebratory window by Caroline Swash in honor of
Herbert Howells in the south chantry of the Lady
Chapel
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The fan vaulting of the south chantry in the Lady
Chapel
Looking south-east in the Lady Chapel, note the
1617 wooden rails in front of the altar
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High perpendicular style of the Lady Chapel,
looking south-east
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The east window in the Lady Chapel assembled from
medieval fragments from elsewhere in the cathedral
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The high altar and reredos seen from the north
ambulatory
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Window in the north ambulatory
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Window depicting St Michael in the north
ambulatory
Entrance to the west slype from the cloister
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The south walk of the cloister with carrels below
the transom
The famous fan-vaulted cloister of Gloucester
Cathedral
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Altar and reredos in St Paul's Chapel in the
north transept
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Figure of St Peter on the reredos in St Paul's
Chapel
Detailed carving on the reredos in St Paul's
Chapel
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Reredos in St Paul's Chapel in the north transept
with Ss Peter, Paul, and Luke carved by Redfern
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The entrance to St Andrew's chapel in the south
transept
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Buttressing flying through the fabric of the
south transept
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High Victorian neo-Gothic decoration of St
Andrew's Chapel in the south transept
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Interior of St Andrew's Chapel - high Victorian
job restored in 1996 St Alban painted in high
Victorian style at St Andrew's Chapel
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The pained ceiling of St Andrew's chapel
decorated by Gambier Perry in 1868
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The magnificent 1996 restoration of St Andrew's
Chapel from 1868
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The neo-Gothic reredos in St Andrew's Chapel
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Text Internet and photographs Pictures
Branislav L. Slantchev and Antonio Mª
Cabrera All  copyrights  belong to their
 respective owners Presentation Sanda
Foisoreanu
2013
Sound Jan Garbarek - O Salutaris Hostia
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O SAVING Victim opening wide The gate of heaven
to all below. Our foes press on from every
side Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow. To
Thy great name be endless praise Immortal
Godhead, One in Three Oh, grant us endless
length of days, In our true native land with
Thee. Amen (tr. E Caswall)
O Salutaris Hostia is from the last two verses of
Verbum Supernum, one of the five Eucharistic
Hymns written by St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
at the request of Pope Urban IV (1261-1264) when
the Pope first instituted the Feast of Corpus
Christi in 1264. The prayer is still used today,
often at exposition of the Blessed Sacrament.
O SALUTARIS Hostia Quae caeli pandis
ostium. Bella premunt hostilia Da robur, fer
auxilium. Uni trinoque Domino Sit sempiterna
gloria Qui vitam sine termino, Nobis donet in
patria. Amen