St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester

St Oswald's Priory was founded by

St Oswald's, founded when Gloucester was an important new burh, at first enjoyed royal favour, and both Æthelflæd and Æthelred were buried there. Æthelflæd's nephew, the future King Æthelstan, was brought up at their court, and according to a charter only preserved in a transcript dating from 1304, in 925 Æthelstan granted privileges to St Oswald's "according to a pact of paternal piety which formerly he pledged with Æthelred".^[5] Æthelstan was a major benefactor of St Oswald's, and he may have commissioned grave covers for the tombs of Æthelflæd and Æthelred.^[6] Prior to the building of the new St Peter's Abbey in 1089, St Oswald's was the major destination of pilgrims journeying to Gloucester.

Decline

The priory soon declined into obscurity. Late in the reign of

Currently the priory is a Grade 1 Listed building.[8]

Items from the priory are in

Burials

• Æthelflæd
• Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians

See also

• List of monastic houses in Gloucestershire

Citations

Sources

• ISBN 978-1-78962-116-7
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• ISBN 978-0-300-12535-1
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• Heighway, Carolyn (2001). "Gloucester and the new minster of St Oswald". In Higham, N. J.; Hill, D. H. (eds.). Edward the Elder 899-924. Routledge.
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• Karkov, Catherine E. (2004). The Ruler Portraits of Anglo-Saxon England. The Boydell Press.
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• Historic England. "St Oswalds Priory (1119912)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 23 February 2011.
• "St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 3 August 2012.

Further reading

Wikimedia Commons has media related to St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester.

• Bintley, M. (2014). "The translation of St Oswald's relics to New Minster, Gloucester: royal and imperial resonances" (PDF). Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History. 19: 171–81.
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• Heighway, Carolyn et al., 'The Roman Tilery at St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester' in Britannia, Vol. 13 (1982), pp. 25–77.
• Heighway, Carolyn (1980). "Excavations at Gloucester, Fifth Interim Report: St Oswald's Priory 1977-8". The Antiquaries Journal. 60 (60): 207–226.
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• Heighway, Caroline (1984). "Anglo-Saxon Gloucester to A.D. 1000". In Faull, Margaret L. (ed.). Studies in Late Anglo-Saxon Settlement. Oxford , UK: Oxford University Department for External Studies.
  ISBN 0-903736-17-9
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• Heighway, Caroline; Bryant, Richard (1999). The Golden Minster: The Anglo-Saxon Minster and Later Medieval Priory of St Oswald at Gloucester. York: CBA Research Report 117.
• West, J. K. (1983). "A Carved Slab Fragment from St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester". In Thompson, F.H. (ed.). Studies in Medieval Sculpture. London. pp. 41–53.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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