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The most interesting parish church in Gloucester is St Mary de Crypt on Southgate Street, mostly late medieval but with some of its original Norman features. A soft, soothing light filters through the stained-glass windows, and fragments of a sixteenth-century wall painting of the Adoration of the Magi in the chancel shows unusual detail for work of that period. Greyfriars runs alongside St Mary's, past the ruins of a Franciscan church and the Eastgate Market to the City Museum on Brunswick Road (July-Sept Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10am-4pm; rest of year Mon-Sat 10am-5pm; GBP2; combined ticket with Folk Museum GBP3; ), with a good archeological collection including a fragment of the Roman city wall, preserved in situ below ground level. Westgate Street, quieter and many times more pleasant than its three Roman counterparts, retains several medieval buildings, one of which, a creaking timber-framed house at the bottom of the street, contains the Folk Museum (July-Sept Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10am-4pm; rest of year Mon-Sat 10am-5pm; GBP2; combined ticket with City Museum GBP3; ). Here, the social history of the Gloucester area is illustrated by an impressive collection of objects, from huge wrought-iron cheese presses to salt-filled rolling pins used to scare off witches. College Court alley leads from Westgate Street to the haven of the cathedral, passing the Beatrix Potter shop and museum - the house sketched by the children's artist and author while she was on holiday here in 1897 and subsequently appearing in every copy of The Tailor of Gloucester .
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