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Three Cocks Lane, GLOUCESTER, GL1 2QU

Clock on St Nicholas church tower on Westgate Street, Gloucester. The top of tower of Gloucester Cathedral can be seen in the background.

The tower and spire of St Nicholas church on Westgate Street in Gloucester.

15th Century house with an 18th Century front. It was built by Richard Whittington, nephew of Dick Whittington, Lord Mayor of London, and was originally called St Nicholas House. It was converted to a pub in 1980. Grade I listed - see www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1245074.

Dated c1730, "an excellent example of early Georgian provincial architecture". Lots of good decorative detail in stone. Grade I listed. The highest listing status is probably due to C15th/C16th fabric behind, including a fresco.

St Nicholas's Church is an early 12th Century church, largely rebuilt in the 13th Century with further subsequent changes . The tower was added in the early 15th Century and with its spire was originally 61m high. However the spire received a direct hit from artillery fire in the 1643 Siege of Gloucester and although rebuilt, it remained unstable and was shortened in 1783. The church was closed in 1967 and declared redundant 4 years later; it is now in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust. Grade I listed - see www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1245083. Dick Whittington's is a 15th Century house with an 18th Century front. It was built by Richard Whittington, nephew of Dick Whittington, Lord Mayor of London, and was originally called St Nicholas House. It was converted to a pub in 1980. Also grade I listed - see www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1245074. For closer view see Image

This sculpture is on the end of a modern building, which is on the corner of Westgate Street and Three Cocks Lane. The sculpture of the cherubs was actually carved in the 18th century to adorn the pediment of the former Booth's Hall. That building was demolished in 1957, but the sculpture was moved here.

This is the Westgate Street entrance to Three Cocks Lane. The lane leads to the Bishop Hooper Monument (he was burnt as a heretic during Queen Mary's reign) and to St. Mary's Close. For a close-up of the 18th century sculpture relocated to the building on the corner see: Image

St Nicholas Church stands on Westgate Street in Gloucester.

This late 18th-century instrument from the church of Image in the City of London was moved to Gloucester in 1831 by Gray & Davidson, who installed it in St Nicholas. The original builder is unknown, though both John Snetzler and George Pike England have been suggested. There are seven stops on the great organ and four on the swell, which is controlled by a nag's-head mechanism, plus a pedal bourdon. Only the eight pipes in the outer towers of the casework speak; the decorated ones in the centre are wooden dummies. St Nicholas was declared redundant a few weeks after this photograph was taken, and the following year (1972) the organ was again moved to the nearby city church of St Mary de Lode, where it can be seen in Philip Halling's photo Image, having undergone further restoration in 2004.