Gloucester Cathedral,
or the Cathedral Church of St Peter and
the Holy and Indivisible Trinity, in Gloucester, England, stands in the
north of the city near the River Severn. It originated in 678 or 679 with the
foundation of an abbey dedicated to Saint Peter. The foundations of the present
church were laid by Abbot Serlo. Walter Gloucester (d. 1412) the abbey's
historian, became its first mitred abbot in 1381. Until 1541, Gloucester lay in
the see of Worcester, but the separate see was then constituted, with John
Wakeman, last abbot of Tewkesbury, as its first bishop. The diocese covers the
greater part of Gloucestershire, with small parts of Herefordshire and Wiltshire.
The cathedral has a stained glass window containing the earliest images of golf.
This dates from 1350, over 300 years earlier than the earliest image of golf
from Scotland. There is also a carved image of people playing a ball game,
believed by some to be one of the earliest images of medieval footbal. Source
0 comments:
Post a Comment