1500

In this period there are more records about the lives of ordinary people. Also for the first time there are realistic portraits painted to show us how some of them actually looked.

More and more people were living here making Gloucester busier but richer. However many of its citizens lived in the countryside, thanks to King Richard III who had made the surrounding land part of the City.

Henry VIII closed Gloucester's great Medieval monasteries and Friaries. Some were lost, some survive today, but the biggest was converted into a Cathedral. The City became once again at the forefront of national politics when its bishop, John Hooper, was burnt alive for his beliefs.