Gloucester Abbey, Benedictine abbey, later site and cathedral foundation of Gloucester
Dates: Medieval foundation to dissolution in 1539–1540
Biography
The Abbey of St Peter at Gloucester was a major Benedictine religious house whose lands and manors were taken into Crown control during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. It was dissolved in the late 1530s and its former abbey church became Gloucester Cathedral in 1541.
Notes / Sources
The date of dissolution varies in modern summaries between 1539 and 1540; the precise date relevant to Ablington requires archival confirmation.
Research sources:
- Parks & Gardens, “Ablington Manor,” citing N. M. Herbert, Victoria County History: Gloucester, Volume 7, 1981, p. 30; corroborated by the historical account of Gloucester Abbey’s dissolution in 1539–1540. — https://www.parksandgardens.org/places/ablington-manor
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