Spital Gate, Cirencester, Gloucestershire
This gatehouse is all that is left of Cirencester Abbey. It dates from the late 12th century. The attached cottage is thought to have been added in the 17th century. An Augustinian Abbey was founded here in 1131. It was built on site of an Anglo-Saxon minster (church) founded in the reign of king Egbert (802-39). The abbey was dissolved in 1539 as part of Henry VIII's Dissolution of the monasteries.
