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Venues

Gloucester Cathedral

With an 1,300 year long history, the Cathedral is one of the most significant heritage destinations in the South West of England. Read on to find out more about the Cathedral’s world-famous architecture, including the magnificent medieval Cloisters and Great East Window.

Keeping this architecture in the best possible condition simply wouldn’t be possible without our dedicated team of specialist stonemasons, who are based here at Gloucester Cathedral. Meanwhile, our Archives and Library help to ensure our story is told for generations to come.

www.gloucestercathedral.org.uk

The Folk of Gloucester

The Folk of Gloucester is a project situated within a 16th century Tudor building with the City community at its heart. Honouring and learning about our past, by bringing people together from the present, we aim to keep the history of Gloucester City alive through the telling of stories.

Gloucester is a beautiful, vibrant, and diverse city full of history and we intend that everyone in the local community will have the opportunity to be involved in The Folk of Gloucester. Through the display of objects, exhibitions, and delivery of programmes and events we will bring to life the stories of the people of the City of Gloucester from the Tudor period to the present day.

The Folk of Gloucester, 99-103 Westgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 2PG

https://thefolkofgloucester.co.uk/

Museum of Gloucester

Museum of Gloucester tells the story of Gloucester’s origins as a Roman settlement and its subsequent development through the Dark Ages and Medieval period.

Housed in a fine Victorian building on Brunswick Road, the Museum is home to a collection of over 750,000 objects of international importance as well as a significant gallery of paintings by famous artists including Richard Wilson, Thomas Gainsborough, John Atkinson Grimshaw and Thomas Dibdin.

Museum of Gloucester, Brunswick Road, Gloucester, GL1 1HP

www.museumofgloucester.co.uk

St Mary de Crypt

St. Mary de Crypt is a fine late 15th Century Church situated in the centre of Gloucester. Although built upon the site of an earlier Norman Church, the only remaining features of that building are some arches in the blocked up part of the Crypt.

Adjacent to the Church is one of the few remaining Tudor Schoolrooms in the Country. It was opened in 1539 and was the first free Grammar School in the City, operating on this site for 320 years. The Church is famous for George Whitfield a great 18th Century Evangelist. He was baptised in the Church and preached his first sermon in the Pulpit there, with such dynamism that it is recorded that people were almost ‘driven to madness!’ George is credited with taking Methodism to America which eventually spread worldwide.

St Mary De Crypt, Southgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 1TP

https://www.stmarydecrypt.org/