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Church
Church of St John the Baptist
Grade I listed church with a Perpendicular porch and fan vaults, paid for by wool merchants.
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Cirencester: things to do
Places worth your time in Cirencester
Top places
Things to do in Cirencester
Landmarks, museums, parks and viewpoints in and around the area.
Museum
Corinium Museum
Museum of Roman Corinium and Cotswold history, with over 90 mosaics known from the town and area.
Square
Market Place
Central square beside the parish church, with the Corn Hall, the Kings Head and the Fleece around it.
Historic building
Corn Hall
Corn exchange designed by Medland, Maberly and Medland and completed in 1863.
Historic building
Cecily Hill Barracks
Castellated barracks building on Cecily Hill, close to the Cecily Hill gate of Cirencester Park.
Roman site
Cirencester Roman Amphitheatre
Early 2nd-century earthwork that could seat about 8,000 spectators; free entry in daylight hours.
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Park
Abbey Grounds
Town-centre park holding the Norman Arch, one of the few remains of the abbey demolished in 1539.
Park
Cirencester Park
Landscape park laid out after 1714 by Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, beside the town centre and extending west.
Gallery
The Coln Gallery
Art shop and framer on West Market Place, trading since 1975.
The Cotswolds
More areas to explore
8 sights · 6 places to eat
Chipping Campden
A wool town of stone terraces, a 1627 market hall and the start of the Cotswold Way
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8 sights · 6 places to eat
Broadway
A wide High Street of stone houses below Broadway Tower
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8 sights · 7 places to eat
Stow-on-the-Wold
A hilltop market town around a large square where the Royalists surrendered in 1646
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- Cirencester (area photo): Tony Grist, Public domain, source
- Church of St John the Baptist: Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Corinium Museum: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Market Place: Christopher Hilton, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Corn Hall: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Cecily Hill Barracks: Russel Wills, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Cirencester Roman Amphitheatre: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Abbey Grounds: Clint Mann, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Cirencester Park: Anthony Parkes, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- The Coln Gallery: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Chipping Campden: nick macneill, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Broadway: Jeff Gogarty, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Stow-on-the-Wold: Bill Boaden, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Bourton-on-the-Water: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Burford: bongo vongo, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, used under the licences shown. All photo credits
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