Gloucestershire All photos by Hetty
23rd August 2019 St. Mary de Crypt Church and School
There was a Norman church here, which was rebuilt in late C14, C15 and C16 and has recently been restored.
Medieval wall painting
Behind the screen is the Robert Raikes Chapel – he founded Sunday Schools and was buried here in 1811
Monument to Daniel Lysons
Brass memorial to the Cooke family who founded the schoolroom next door in 1539
C17 Pulpit used by George Whitefield for his first sermon in 1736 – he was one of the founders of Methodism and spent a lot of time in USA
Crypt Schoolroom – opened in 1539, the first free school in the city
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22nd August 2017
The Stroud U3A photography group had a guided tour by Gloucester Civic Trust
Southgate Street
St Mary De Crypt Church
The old Crypt schoolroom
St Mary de Crypt
Part of the storytellers bench
St Michael’s tower, built in 1465 at The Cross, no longer has a church (the old and new churches were both demolished)
The market cross used to stand here – it was demolished in 1751
Baker’s clock was built in 1904 and has the figures (L to R) – An Irishwoman, John Bull, Old Father Time, a Scotsman and a Welshwoman.
The Old Bell Inn
Robert Raikes House
Robert Raikes House
Eastgate Street has several Victorian buildings
Eastgate market portico, built in 1856 was retained when Eastgate shopping centre was built in 1973
Northgate St
The New Inn was built in the early 15th century on the site of an earlier inn
The hooks are where the meat used to hang in the days before fridges
The side of The New Inn
Westgate St
A Georgian front on an Elizabethan building
There is an alleyway where you can see the side of the Elizabethan building
Of the three top windows on the white Georgian building, only the centre one is real – the others are painted on
Beatrix Potter drew this shop and doorway in her book The Tailor of Gloucester
Shire Hall had the same architect as the British Museum in London
The spire on St Nicholas’ church was once twice the height it is now
Longsmith St
Bearland House,
The pediment on this house, was once on the house further up the road
Ladybellegate House was built c.1704. The pediment used to be here, but was sold
Gloucester Museum
We saw a few pigs on the Henson Pig Trail
There is a lot of work going on at Gloucester Cathedral
