English Cathedrals - St Pauls Chapel , Gloucester cathedral - Looking to chapel , steps up. Part of Box 144 Boswell Collection - English Cathedrals. Gloucester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity, in Gloucester, England, stands in the north of the city near the River Severn. It originated in 678 or 679 with the foundation of an abbey dedicated to Saint Peter (dissolved by King Henry VIII).