Whitminster / Wheatenhurst / Whitenhert

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view of church exterior

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2011 by John Wilkes

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view of church exterior - west tower

Image Source: replacement digital photograph taken 7 August 2017 by John Wilkes

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2011 by John Wilkes

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [http://www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 27 December 2007]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13277WHI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Whitminster, Gloucester GL2 7PN, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

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]

Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of this church and modern font.

Church Notes: "church of ST. ANDREW, so called from the 11th century" [cf. VCH entry in FootNotes]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.779722, -2.348889

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 46′ 47″ N, 2° 20′ 56″ W

UTM: 30U 544918 5736739

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2007-12-27 00:00:00. 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