Open accessfree to visit at any reasonable time
Substantial ruinsruined, but plenty survives above ground
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Æthelflæd, daughter of Alfred the Great, founded this minster with her husband Æthelred in the 890s, and in 909 some of the bones of St Oswald were brought here from Bardney. It ended up a modest Augustinian house, overshadowed by the abbey that is now Gloucester Cathedral two minutes away. After the Dissolution it served as the parish church of St Catherine until the Civil War siege of 1643 brought it down. What stands is a fine fragment — several bays of the arcade wall between nave and north aisle, in a small city-council garden off Archdeacon Street, free to walk into.
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