Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity This cathedral was founded in in 1140 and consecrated in 1148. It was originally St. Augustine’s Abbey but in 1542, after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it became the seat of the newly created Bishop of Bristol and the cathedral of the new Diocese of Bristol. The…

The Cathedral Church of St. Andrew This Anglican cathedral is located in the city of Wells in Somerset. It is the seat of the Bishop of Bath and Wells and is the mother church of the diocese. It was built between 1175 and 1490. It is moderately sized for a medieval cathedral of the period…

Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary The cathedral was begun in 1220 and was mostly complete by 1258. It is built in the Early English Gothic style. The spire of the cathedral has been the tallest in England since 1549. Due to it’s height and weight of the tower, additional buttresses, bracing arches and…

Cathedral Church of St. Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity A Saxon abbey was founded in Gloucester in 681 and by 1089, a third monastery stood on this site when the Normans began their great church. After King Edward II was buried here in 1327 after his murder, the church became a great place…

Cathedral Church of St. Peter The cathedral was founded in 1050 when the seat of the Bishop of Devon and Cornwall was transferred from Crediton. A new building was begun in 1133 in the Norman style and was finished c.1150 which includes both the transept towers. The choir was begun in 1288 and the nave…