Gloucester Audio Tour: No More Twist

Name: Gloucester Audio Tour: No More Twist
Brand: AudaTours
Price: 4.99 USD
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Gloucester's spires, cloisters and dockside warehouses belong to the history books. The streets between them belong to a different city — the medieval stonemasons who invented fan vaulting under plague conditions, the tailor who finished a mayor's waistcoat by candlelight and pinned a note saying 'no more twist', the newspaper printer who started the Sunday School movement, the pin-wire workers at the Westgate bench who once employed one in five of the city's population, the Augustinian canons dispersed with a year's pension, the corn-porters who hauled grain to the top of Llanthony Warehouse, and the watermen whose trows ran salt and timber on the Severn before the canal cut them out. These are the working people who kept Gloucester going — and whose names rarely made it onto the plaques.

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Duration 40–60 minsGo at your own pace
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4.3 km walking routeFollow the guided path
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LocationGloucester, United Kingdom
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Starts at Gloucester Cathedral Great Cloister

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Gloucester CathedralThe Great Cloister, north of the nave, contains the earliest surviving fan vaulting in England. Built in the late 14th century, the very earliest section dates from the 1350s and shows experimental stonework — medieval masons working out, stone by stone, a structural form no one had ever built before. The master mason Robert Lesyngham is credited with beginning the other three walks from 1381.

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St Oswald's PrioryThe ruins of St Oswald's Priory, the oldest standing masonry in Gloucester. Founded as an Anglo-Saxon minster by Æthelflæd, daughter of Alfred the Great, in the late 880s, and rededicated after the relics of St Oswald were brought here from Northumbria in 909. By the 12th century it had become an Augustinian priory. It was suppressed in 1536 — two years before Llanthony Secunda — and its church served as the parish church of St Catherine until the Civil War siege of 1643 destroyed most of it. Only the north wall survives.

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The Infirmary ArchesThe surviving arcade arches of the medieval Abbey's infirmary, on the south side of College Green. The infirmary served the monks — and in the pilgrim era, was part of the labour infrastructure that supported the shrine of Edward II. The Abbey's domestic workers — cooks, launderers, infirmarians, porters — were the invisible workforce behind the pilgrim economy. John Huntley, recorded as the Abbey's cellarer around 1510, was one of the named monk-officers whose household accounts survive in the Abbey's records.

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College CourtA narrow medieval lane running from Westgate Street to the Cathedral's St Michael's Gate, lined with timber-framed buildings. Number 9 College Court is the building Beatrix Potter chose as the setting for The Tailor of Gloucester. The real tailor, John Prichard, worked at 45 Westgate Street; his assistants finished a mayor's waistcoat in the night and pinned a note to the unfinished buttonhole: 'no more twist.'

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Three Cocks LaneA short medieval lane running off St Mary's Square, formerly known as Abbey Lane (giving access to the Abbey's west gate) and later Portcullis Lane. By the early 18th century it hosted the sheep market. Its current name comes from an 18th-century inn, since demolished. The lane represents the dense tangle of specialist market activity that occupied Gloucester's medieval back-streets.

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