This cathedral was founded in the year 680, bit nothing of that building remains.The crypt of the present building dates back to the 10th Century and Saint Oswald who was Bishop of Worcester.
According to Bede there had been nuns and monks on this site from the 7th Century, and around the year 970, the Benedictine Order arrived here. They stayed till they were driven out in 1540.
The cathedral is the burial place of King John, Prince Arthur Tudor ( brother of HenryVIII), and Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.
The cathedral also had 2 shrines, one for St Wulstan and one for St Oswald. These shrines were destroyed during the Reformation. Wulstan was the lastsurviving pre conquest Bishop, and the only English born Bishop after 1075.
Oswald of Worcester, not to be confused with Oswald of Northumbria, was Archbishop of York from 972 till his death in 992. He actually died while washing the feet of the poor, something he did every day during Lent.
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