Stroud

No idividual entry found for Stroud in the Domesday survey. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 11, 1976) notes: "A church had been built at Stroud by 1279 [...] a chapel of ease to Bisley [...] remained a chapel to Bisley [...] until the 1720s [...] The rebuilding of the body of the church was begun in 1866 and completed in 1868. [...] The carving and ornamentation was carried out by Joshua Wall of Stroud who also made the pulpit, replacing a hexagonal oak pulpit of 1759, and the font, [...] replacing one made c. 1834". Font noted and illustrated in The Gloucestershire Photo Library [www.allthecotswolds.com/] [accessed 5 January 2008]. The present font consists of a square basin raised on a central shaft and four outer colonnettes, all terribly Victorian and compiting in ugliness with the font at Sudeley, of about the same period. Thick octagonal wooden cover. [NB: we have no information of the font of the 13th-century church here].