The standing wall on this site incorporates remnants of the church built about 900 AD by Ethelflaed, the daughter of King Alfred the Great.
Ethelflaed re-fortified the decayed Roman town of Gloucester. Just outside the walls she built this church – the new Minster.
Ethelflaed herself is buried here. For the next century the new minster of St Oswald was famous for its wealth and its miracles; it was nicknamed the GOLDEN MINSTER.