Proposed Urban Landscape

Proposed Urban Landscape (areas marked brown on map)

31. POOL WITH NINE FOUNTAINS Roman wall possibly exposed in hotel car park under

32. PEDESTRIAN SQUARE

33. NEW GATE TO PRECINCTS

34. GATE TO CATHEDRAL GARDENS re-aligned

35. GATEWAY TO CATHEDRAL GARDENS

36. DEDICATED PUBLIC OPEN SPACE

'Relations between abbey and town seem never to have been really easy. On the one hand was a wealthy religious institution with many rights and privileges. No individual, no single body in Gloucester could compare with it. On the other hand, there was a community ever seeking liberties and privileges and intensely jealous of those it secured. Its ruling members were business men, many of them very successful, who fully realized the town's commercial importance' (Anglo-Saxon and Mediaeval Gloucester, L.E.O.W. Fullbrook-Leggatt)

Although the relationship was changed after the dissolution, the physical barrier between city and cathedral continued to grow until today, in Northgate, it is virtually absolute.

37. ST ALDATE PLACE, pedestrian, formerly St Aldate Street.

38. PAVINGS WITH SEATS, ETC., AND TREES ON AREA NOT OVER CAR PARK

39. FORECOURT TO HOTEL with ramp down to car park.

40. CORNER STAIRWAY

41. ESCALATOR

42. EXTENSION OF NEW INN LANE

43. KING PLACE, formerly King Street, with grove of trees.

44. QUEEN PASSAGE, formerly Queen Street

45. EXISTING BOWLING GREEN, NEW PAVILION, AND GARDENS.

46. CORNER STAIRWAY

47. PAVED SQUARE ON SITE OF FORMER FRIARY

48. CHURCHYARD WITH EXISTING TREES

49. GRAVEYARD TO MEETING HOUSE

50. PAVINGS WITH TREE CANOPY

51. LAWNS AND TREES. GRASS CLOISTER WITHIN BLACKFRIARS

52. EXISTING PAVEMENT SCULPTURE

53. PAVEMENT SCULPTURE

54. PARKLAND

55. SCHOOL PLAYING FIELDS

King's School was established by Henry VIII who ordained that a free school, open to all, should be maintained by the Dean and Chapter of the newly-founded See of Gloucester. Previous to this there had been a small number of special schools such as the Abbey School for its novices, and a Jew's (sic) school in Eastgate Street. A School is mentioned in a charter of King John, 1199. Schools were usually for the sons of burgesses and the like. The children of townsfolk received no schooling, but began work as soon as they were old enough to do so, and served their apprenticeships. (from Anglo-Saxon and Mediaeval Gloucester).

56. CAR PARK

57. EXISTING SURFACE CAR PARK

58. STATION FOR LONG-DISTANCE BUSES

59. PRECINCTS OF CIVIC CENTRE

60. CAMPUS, associated with Civic Centre, for use by students in the Technical and Art Colleges.

61. SUBWAYS

62. CEREMONIAL FORECOURT

63. REMOVEABLE BOLLARDS

64. TREES AND PARKING SPACES

65. CAR PARK FOR COUNTY HALL