The ruins can only be seen from the outside, as they are still part of the current minster church.

The minster church of Cirencester, founded in the 9th or 10th century, was probably a royal foundation.

This was originally a minster church founded around 653 and re-founded as a cathedral in 1072.

There are also exhibits on the religious use of the building and its home to past ministers of the Minster Church.

The new estate churches were frequently dependent to some extent on the original minster church within whose boundary they were located.

The village has a public house, the Cross Keys, a Methodist chapel, and the remains of a large minster church.

Some of the minster churches survived the plundering and eventually the Danish leaders were converted to Christianity.

The Minster Church, so called since the 19th century, dates back to the 12th century when it was built by the Normans.

It was clearly influenced by the Ottonian minster church of Essen Abbey.

The church had been established in the middle Saxon period, and was probably a minster church, a base for a group of clergy living a communal life.