Carolyn Heighway worked on excavations in Winchester, York, Belize and Carthage in the 1970s and conducted excavations for Gloucester Museum from 1973-1981. She was archaeological consultant to Gloucester Cathedral from 1981-2009. She is a Director of Past Historic. Richard Bryant was Deputy Field Director on the British Academy Carthage Project from 1974-1978. He worked at Sutton Publishing from 1983 and since 1996 has been a Director of Past Historic.
This book is a model of its kind … It is superbly illustrated, with images well placed in the text ... a significant advance in our understanding of the building. * Current Archaeology * This book serves as a model for what can be achieved when hard-won, though often very inaccessible, architectural and archaeological surveys of the nation's great churches are synthesized and analysed. * The Archaeological Journal * The great late 11th-century church of St Peter at Gloucester has been the subject of much scholarly debate over the last 40 years … [This book] is well-illustrated and, in tandem with the accompanying verbal descriptions, will serve as a necessary portfolio of data for future research. * Medieval Archaeology *