Bristol Cathedral

Bristol Cathedral was founded as St Augustine's Abbey in 1140 by Robert Fitzharding, a wealthy local landowner and royal official who later became Lord Berkeley. As the name suggests, the monastic precinct housed Augustinian canons. The original abbey church, of which only fragments remain, was constructed between 1140 and 1148 in the Romanesque style, known in England as Norman. The Venerable Bede made reference to St Augustine of Canterbury visiting the site in 603ACE, and John Leland had recorded that it was a long-established religious shrine. William Worcester recorded in his Survey of Bristol that the original Augustinian abbey church was further to the east of the current site,…

{|class="wikitable floatright" style="text-align:center;" |+The dimensions of Bristol Cathedral |- !scope="col"| Feature !scope="col"| Dimension |- !scope="row"| Total length, external | 300 ft |- !scope="row"| Total length, internal | 284 ft |- !scope="row"| Length of nave | 125 ft |- !scope="row"| Width, including aisles | 69 ft |- !scope="row"| Length of transept | 115 ft |- !scope="row"| Width of transept | 29 ft |- !scope="row"| Height to vault in nave | 52 ft |- !scope="row"| Height to vault in choir | 50 ft |- !scope="row"| Area | 22556 sqft |} Bristol Cathedral is a grade I listed building which shows a range of architectural styles and periods. The 14th century eastern arm has been…

Bristol Cathedral was used as a location in the 1978 film The Medusa Touch under the guise of a fictional London place of worship called Minster Cathedral. It was also used as a location for BBC TV's 2015 production of Wolf Hall, for the coronation scene.