Editing Gloucester Cathedral (section)

===Dissolution and recreation===
At its inception, the abbey stood in the [[see of Worcester]]; but its position was transformed at the [[Dissolution of the monasteries]]. Following abolition, Henry VIII created the new [[Diocese of Gloucester]] and on 3 September 1541,{{sfn|Pevsner|Metcalf|2005|p=106}} the abbey church became its cathedral, with [[John Wakeman]], last abbot of [[Tewkesbury Abbey|Tewkesbury]], as its first bishop.{{sfn|Verey|Brooks|2002a|p=398}} The diocese covered the greater part of [[Gloucestershire]], with small parts of [[Herefordshire]] and [[Wiltshire]]. Although staunchly [[Cavalier|Royalist]] in its sympathies, the city, and the cathedral, escaped largely unscathed from the tumult of the [[English Civil War]] and plans for complete demolition formulated during the [[Commonwealth of England|Commonwealth]] were not taken forward.{{sfn|Verey|Brooks|2002a|p=398}}

The 18th and 19th centuries saw repeated periods of reconstruction, renovation and rebuilding. Counter to the approach sometimes adopted elsewhere in the [[Victorian era]], the 19th century restorations at Gloucester, firstly by the local architects, [[Frederick S. Waller]] and [[Thomas Fulljames]], and latterly by [[George Gilbert Scott]], were "on the whole, very tactful" [see box].{{sfn|Verey|Brooks|2002a|p=399}}{{efn|[[George Gilbert Scott]]'s plans for the restoration of [[Tewkesbury Abbey]] saw a furious assault from [[William Morris]], who subsequently founded the [[Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings]] to fight against the "scraping" he considered was so often the result of Victorian restoration.{{sfn|Stamp|2015|pp=12–13}}}} During the [[Second World War]] a recess in the crypt was used to house the [[Coronation Chair]], which had been moved in August 1939 from [[Westminster Abbey]] for safe keeping. The 13th century bog-oak effigy of [[Robert Curthose]] was placed on the chair and the whole covered by sandbags. The Great East Window was also dismantled and placed in storage.{{sfn|Shenton|2021|pp=201-202}} The remainder of the 10,000 sandbags supplied by the Office of Works were used to protect the other monuments in the cathedral, including the tomb of Edward II.{{sfn|Shenton|2021|pp=201-202}}