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The article mentions that the King's School uses the Cathedral for events, but fails to mention that another old Gloucester School, Crypt School, also uses it. I am reluctant to edit the article and add more information unless other wikipedians agree that it should be mentioned. Arawn 23:32, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
The great big info box is causing a huge break in the text. The person who placed it doesn't seem to EVER use the show preview option! See same complaint at Canterbury, Bristol, Ely, Chester etc etc etc etc ! Amandajm ( talk) 07:43, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
No-one reading this article would even begin to suspect that the choir of Gloucester is reproduced in every single book on English architecture. 08:52, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
The statement "The festival is held in every third year at Gloucester and is the oldest annual musical festival in the world" contains a rather obvious oxymoron. If it is every 3 years it isnt annual. 82.152.159.30 ( talk) 19:47, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
On a recent visit to the cathedral, I was told that it does not have any foundations (beyond the crypt). I was told by cathedral staff that the whole thing is built on wet mud, and would start subsiding if that mud began to dry out. So I've found the section on 'foundations' a bit confusing - are there foundations or not?! If I come across a good source for this information, I shall clarify the article - but please feel free to beat me to it! Thanks. Crinoline ( talk) 20:26, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
The Harry Potter link at the bottom of this page seems to have been changed. It goes to a website with non-english characters that appears to have nothing to do with Harry Potter or Gloucester. I haven't removed it since it may be a temporary problem with the external link, and I'm not sure of the procedure. Djkempoz ( talk) 02:18, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
The article said "established 681" and "rebuilt 1058" but we don’t know what happened in 681 (and 1058); and the infobox refers to 1499. But we don’t know whether in 681 there was a functioning church there holding services or whether in 681 an abbot (?) said "Let’s build a church here" ? I would say that it was completed in 681 if there were regular services held in the church even if more alterations were completed in 1058 and 1499. Hugo999 ( talk) 23:05, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
References
I've done a bit of work on this. In brief:
A couple of things. The architecture section is quite brief, and that for the main building, almost completely unreferenced. I'll have a go at expanding this. I'm unsure as to the value of the Timeline, again it's almost completely uncited. And I'm unclear what the book in Further reading is adding. Does it contain useful information on music at Gloucester? If so, could it not be used and cited in the body? Thoughts, on these issues, and any others on how the article might be improved, would be much appreciated. KJP1 ( talk) 15:14, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
KJP1 ( talk) 18:22, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
I have merged in material from Gloucester Abbey prior to converting that page into a Re-direct of this. The Talk and the History are both preserved at the re-direct page, [1]. Thanks and acknowledgement to all authors who contributed to the Abbey article. My apologies in advance if I've not gone about it correctly. KJP1 ( talk) 14:37, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
I've removed this addition as I can find no mention either of the architect or of the source. It can go back in with proper sourcing, of course, KJP1 ( talk) 03:08, 23 November 2023 (UTC):
KJP1 ( talk) 03:08, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
In the article there's a paragraph which says:
The cathedral celebrated its 900th anniversary in 1989. In 2015 Rachel Treweek was installed as bishop, the first woman to be appointed to a diocesan bishopric in the history of the Church of England. In September 2016 Gloucester Cathedral joined the Church of England's ' Shrinking the footprint' campaign, intended to reduce the Church of England's carbon emissions by 80% by 2050. The cathedral commissioned a solar array on the cathedral roof which is expected to reduce the cathedral's energy costs by 25%. The installation was completed by November 2016, making the 1,000-year-old cathedral the oldest one in the UK with a solar installation.
The start of the paragraph says it celebrated its 900th anniversary in 1989 and the end of the paragraph says it was 1000 years old in 2016. But if its 900th was in 1989 wouldnt that make it 927 years old in 2016 not 1000? I realise it says 1000 in the source and there's no source for the '900th anniversary in 1989' part but isn't there a way that we can rectify this contradiction without braking any of Wikipedia's rules? Thomas Norren ( talk) 05:36, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
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The article mentions that the King's School uses the Cathedral for events, but fails to mention that another old Gloucester School, Crypt School, also uses it. I am reluctant to edit the article and add more information unless other wikipedians agree that it should be mentioned. Arawn 23:32, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
The great big info box is causing a huge break in the text. The person who placed it doesn't seem to EVER use the show preview option! See same complaint at Canterbury, Bristol, Ely, Chester etc etc etc etc ! Amandajm ( talk) 07:43, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
No-one reading this article would even begin to suspect that the choir of Gloucester is reproduced in every single book on English architecture. 08:52, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
The statement "The festival is held in every third year at Gloucester and is the oldest annual musical festival in the world" contains a rather obvious oxymoron. If it is every 3 years it isnt annual. 82.152.159.30 ( talk) 19:47, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
On a recent visit to the cathedral, I was told that it does not have any foundations (beyond the crypt). I was told by cathedral staff that the whole thing is built on wet mud, and would start subsiding if that mud began to dry out. So I've found the section on 'foundations' a bit confusing - are there foundations or not?! If I come across a good source for this information, I shall clarify the article - but please feel free to beat me to it! Thanks. Crinoline ( talk) 20:26, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
The Harry Potter link at the bottom of this page seems to have been changed. It goes to a website with non-english characters that appears to have nothing to do with Harry Potter or Gloucester. I haven't removed it since it may be a temporary problem with the external link, and I'm not sure of the procedure. Djkempoz ( talk) 02:18, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
The article said "established 681" and "rebuilt 1058" but we don’t know what happened in 681 (and 1058); and the infobox refers to 1499. But we don’t know whether in 681 there was a functioning church there holding services or whether in 681 an abbot (?) said "Let’s build a church here" ? I would say that it was completed in 681 if there were regular services held in the church even if more alterations were completed in 1058 and 1499. Hugo999 ( talk) 23:05, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
References
I've done a bit of work on this. In brief:
A couple of things. The architecture section is quite brief, and that for the main building, almost completely unreferenced. I'll have a go at expanding this. I'm unsure as to the value of the Timeline, again it's almost completely uncited. And I'm unclear what the book in Further reading is adding. Does it contain useful information on music at Gloucester? If so, could it not be used and cited in the body? Thoughts, on these issues, and any others on how the article might be improved, would be much appreciated. KJP1 ( talk) 15:14, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
KJP1 ( talk) 18:22, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
I have merged in material from Gloucester Abbey prior to converting that page into a Re-direct of this. The Talk and the History are both preserved at the re-direct page, [1]. Thanks and acknowledgement to all authors who contributed to the Abbey article. My apologies in advance if I've not gone about it correctly. KJP1 ( talk) 14:37, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
I've removed this addition as I can find no mention either of the architect or of the source. It can go back in with proper sourcing, of course, KJP1 ( talk) 03:08, 23 November 2023 (UTC):
KJP1 ( talk) 03:08, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
In the article there's a paragraph which says:
The cathedral celebrated its 900th anniversary in 1989. In 2015 Rachel Treweek was installed as bishop, the first woman to be appointed to a diocesan bishopric in the history of the Church of England. In September 2016 Gloucester Cathedral joined the Church of England's ' Shrinking the footprint' campaign, intended to reduce the Church of England's carbon emissions by 80% by 2050. The cathedral commissioned a solar array on the cathedral roof which is expected to reduce the cathedral's energy costs by 25%. The installation was completed by November 2016, making the 1,000-year-old cathedral the oldest one in the UK with a solar installation.
The start of the paragraph says it celebrated its 900th anniversary in 1989 and the end of the paragraph says it was 1000 years old in 2016. But if its 900th was in 1989 wouldnt that make it 927 years old in 2016 not 1000? I realise it says 1000 in the source and there's no source for the '900th anniversary in 1989' part but isn't there a way that we can rectify this contradiction without braking any of Wikipedia's rules? Thomas Norren ( talk) 05:36, 31 March 2024 (UTC)