Glorious Gloucestershire

Tewkesbury Abbey is a Norman church built on a cathedral scale, glittering down on all this is some of the finest medieval stained glass in England.

St Mary's is one of the most complete buildings to survive from before the Norman Conquest.

One of the most significant Victorian churches in the country.

Adorned with some of the best preserved medieval wall paintings in England, the church sits on one of the ancient pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostella.

A village parish church distinguished by a magical woodland setting and an entire wall of medieval wall paintings.

The chapel is idyllically sited overlooking the Toadmoor Valley, the site is made more poignant by the run of identically sized memorial crosses which mark the graves of Bertha and Katherine and a number of local Catholic priests, monks and laymen and women.

The church is attached to the seat of the Dukes of Beaufort, Badminton House and was built in 1785 by Charles Evans, in the style of St Martin in the Fields in miniature.

Dubbed the Cathedral of the Cotswolds, Cirencester's brilliant 'wool' church is the largest and, many would say, the finest of them all.

Gloucester Cathedral has been a place of Christian worship continuously for over 1,300 years: our vision is to seek to be 'in tune with heaven and in touch with daily life'.

Full of human interest and interwoven with the people of this place for more than a thousand years, the church has survived good times and bad.

One of the most complete surviving Saxon churches in England, this chapel was built in 1056 by Earl Odda, a relation of Edward the Confessor.

The body of this beautiful little chapel is Saxon and fairly early Norman, though the round Saxon apse was destroyed in the early 19th century.