ABSTRACT
According to the survey of Gloucester compiled between 1096 and 1101–probably nearer the latter year–and preserved in the cartulary of Evesham Abbey, there were then ten churches within the city. Most of Gloucester's medieval churches, therefore, were founded in the eleventh century or before, and one can be certain that the medieval pattern of city churches dated in large part from before the Conquest. St Mary de Crypt possessed the largest of Gloucester's intramural parishes, covering an area of approximately 17 acres. During the twelfth century. All Saints' parish, as mapped in the nineteenth century, was the smallest of the city parishes, covering an area of about one acre immediately west of the Cross. Occupying the least prominent site of any of Gloucester's intramural churches, St Aldate's stood on the south frontage of St Aldate's Street; its large churchyard to the rear extended westwards to the back wall of properties on Northgate Street.
