St Oswald's Priory was founded by Æthelflæd, daughter of Alfred the Great, and her husband Æthelred, ealdorman of Mercia, in the late 880s or the 890s. It appears to have been an exact copy of the Old Minster, Winchester It is a Grade I listed building. The site was an important part of the Burh of Gloucester and was supported by the ruling family of the time including king Æthelstan.
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- View of the ruins of the Priory from the south side. A 9th-century Anglo-Saxon cross found at the Priory, now in Gloucester City Museum & Art Gallery. (Painted replica on right).
- Beyond Gloucester Cathedral lies a small park with the standing remains of St Oswald Priory.
- The Priory is very easy to reach on foot from the cathedral. Website: St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester Location map OS: SO830190 Photo Credit...
- GLOUCESTER. SO81NW PRIORY ROAD 844-1/3/246 (South side) 23/01/52 St Oswald's Priory.
- St Oswald's Priory is a ruined church north of the cathedral in Gloucester.
- St Oswald's Priory Gloucester. ... St Peter’s Abbey had been founded in Gloucester about 679 by Osric, ruler of the Hwicce, and at the end of the ninth century...
- The ruins of St Oswald's Priory are only fragmentary, and are surrounded on most sides by modern development, close to Gloucester city centre...
- St Oswald's Priory: Priory Ruins - See 42 traveller reviews, 10 candid photos, and great deals for Gloucester, UK, at Tripadvisor.
- St. Oswald's today St. Oswald's Priory in Gloucester was founded by the last King of Mercia, Aethelred II, and his formidable wife, Lady Aethelflaed, in about 890.
- St Oswald's Priory was founded by Æthelflæd, daughter of Alfred the Great, and her husband Æthelred, ealdorman of Mercia, in the late 880s or the 890s.[1][2]...
