Photo of Odda's Chapel, a chapel near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, south west England.

Odda's Chapel© Martin Dawes / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Abbeys & priories in GloucestershireGloucestershire, England

9 abbeys and priories in the Albion Guide across Gloucestershire — see the full abbeys and priories directory, or everything to explore in Gloucestershire.

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Odda's Chapel

Chapel near Tewkesbury

One of England's most complete Saxon chapels, built in 1056 and rediscovered inside a farmhouse at Deerhurst.

Blackfriars, Gloucester

Friary · Dominican near Gloucester

Dominican friary in central Gloucester, among the most complete in England, later a Tudor mansion and cloth works, with a 13th-century scissor-braced roof.

Greyfriars, Gloucester

Friary · Franciscan near Gloucester

Tall ruined walls of Gloucester's Franciscan friary church, rebuilt in the early Tudor years for a community established in 1231.

Hailes Abbey

Abbey near Stanway

Hailes Abbey and ringwork

St Mary's Church, Kempley

Ruined church near Much Marcle

Norman church in the countryside at Kempley, its chancel covered in rare 12th-century frescoes and its nave in paintings of the 1300s.

St Oswald's Priory

Priory near Gloucester

The remains of a medieval priory in Gloucestershire.

Winchcombe Abbey

Abbey near Winchcombe

A vanished Mercian Benedictine house whose carved stone turns up in town walls.

Kingswood Abbey

Abbey near Cam & Dursley

Kingswood Abbey gate

Llanthony Secunda Priory

Priory near Gloucester

The remains of a medieval priory in Gloucestershire.