Tetbury/ Teteberie

There is an entry for Tetbury [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST8993/tetbury/] [accessed 20 February 2019]; it mentions a priest but not a church in it, though there must have been one there. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 11, 1976) notes: "The minster church mentioned in 681 [...] is not otherwise recorded, but there was presumably a church at Tetbury in 1086 when a priest was recorded on the manor", and adds that the medieval predecessor of the present church "was a rambling building, apparently dating largely from the 14th century; [...] it was re-dedicated in 1315." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish. A font here is illustrated in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 3 January 2008]. The baptismal font, contemporary with the late 18th-century building, consists of a dodecagonal basin raised on a slender pedestal and lower base of the same shape, and a double plinth, both volumes square. [NB: the old church building dated from ca. 1400, but we have no information about its font]. [NB: the church of St. Saviour, built in 1848 to cover for the needs of the less wealthy citizens of Tetbury, has, paradoxically, a much grander baptismal font; it is illustrated in Verey (1982)]