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Gloucester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity, stands in the north of the city near the river Severn. It originated in 678 or 679 with the foundation of an abbey dedicated to Saint Peter.

The High Altar and East window – click here for a very high resolution image of the High AltarBelow is a high resolution interactive view of the stained glass  in the West Window, please use the control bar along the bottom of the image to zoom in/out, pan left/right or enter full screen viewing.

The current stained glass was installed in 1859 as a memorial to Dr J. H. Monk, Bishop of Gloucester from 1830 to 1856. It was made by the large Newcastle firm of William Wailes, and is signed and dated in the red strip in the bottom left-hand corner of the window.

The Cloister contains some stunning architecture including fan vaulted ceilings and is famous in recent times for being one location for the Harry Potter films.

The St Andrew’s chapel, adjacent to the South Transept, was re-decorated in the Victorian era and the frescoes are very vibrant.

A large part of the photography at Gloucester Cathedral has taken place to produce a high resolution virtual tour of the cathedral which can be seen below (full screen viewing is highly recommended). Each 360 virtual reality scene has been created from 120 raw images taken on a Canon 5D4 camera and Canon 24mm lens which, when processed, produce 5Gb master images which are 30,000 pixels wide.

Shown below are the Thomas Denny stained glass memorial windows for Ivor Gurney and Gerald Finzi which are installed in the North Chantry in the Lady Chapel. The windows can be viewed in high resolution by zooming into each section.

The official Gloucester Cathedral website can be found here

An on-line reference to the Cathedral church of Gloucester is also available

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