Whitminster / Wheatenhurst / Whitenhert
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2011 by John Wilkes
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 27 December 2007]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2011 by John Wilkes
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view of church exterior - west tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2017
Image Source: replacement digital photograph taken 7 August 2017 by John Wilkes
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 27 December 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13277WHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Notes: "church of ST. ANDREW, so called from the 11th century" [cf. VCH entry in FootNotes]
Church Address: Whitminster, Gloucester GL2 7PN, UK
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A38, 8 km W of Stroud, 11 km SSW of Gloucester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Whitstone -- Hundred of Bachelaue [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church)
Font Notes:
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No individual entry for Whitminster found in the Domesday survey, which does have an entry for Wheatenhurst [variant spelling] [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO7609/wheatenhurst/] [accessed 15 February 2019]; it reports a priest in it, bot not a church, though there must have been one there. Kelly's Directory of Gloucestershire for 1856 reports a font present in this church and, although it does not actually give its date, it was probably the new font introduced in the 1850 renovations. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 10, 1972) notes that, according to the Domesday Book,"Wheatenhurst had a priest, and therefore a church, in 1086", but the present octagonal font "is of the 19th century." This modern font is also noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. C19 Perp[endicular], octagonal." [NB: we have no information on the original font of this church].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of this church and modern font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 544918 5736739
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.779722, -2.348889
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 46′ 47″ N, 2° 20′ 56″ W
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Gloucestershire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1856
- Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002, vol. 2: 804