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Cirencester is a market town in E Gloucestershire. One of the private houses dating back to the 16thc retains a fragment from a demolished 12thc abbey church.
The town had a Saxon minster church which was given over to Augustinian canons by Henry I in 1117, and replaced by the abbey church. The abbey was dedicated in 1176 and demolished on the orders of Henry VIII in 1539 and its masonry and sculpture dispersed.
The central slot of the fragment may have been recut.
