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In the 15th century the transept and central tower were added.The nave was incomplete at the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 and was demolished.In an edict dated June 1542, Henry VIII and Thomas Cranmer raised the building to rank of Cathedral of a new Diocese of Bristol.Bristol had been, before the Reformation, and the erection of Gloucester diocese, part of the Diocese of Worcester.That site was bombed during World War Two and the site built on by the Royal Hotel, but archaeological finds were deposited with Bristol Museum and Art Gallery.Abbot David argued with the convent and was deposed in 1234 to be replaced by William of Bradstone who purchased land from the mayor to build a quay and the Church of St Augustine the Less.

The exterior has deep buttresses with finials to weathered tops and crenellated parapets with crocketed pinnacles below the Perpendicular crossing tower.The next abbot was William Longe, the Chamberlain of Keynsham, whose reign was found to have lacked discipline and had poor financial management.In 1280 he resigned and was replaced as abbot by Abbot Hugh who restored good order, with money being given by Edward I.Giles Gilbert Scott was consulted in 1860 and suggested removing the screen dated 1542 to provide 'a nave of the grandest possible capacity'.The work at this time also removed some of the more vulgar medieval misericords in the choir stalls.

In the 19th century Gothic Revival a new nave was built by George Edmund Street partially using the original plans.