Gloucester No. 2 / Glouuecestre / Glowecestre
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view of church exterior in context - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2019 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 5 April 2020)
view of font and cover
Scene Description: re-cut font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2019 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 5 April 2020)
INFORMATION
FontID: 14105GLO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist [later St. John Northgate] [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Northgate St / St John's Ln, GL1 2AN, Gloucester, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Gloucester is located off (W) the A430, on Northgate St, 9-10 km WSW of Cheltenham and the M5
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Dudstone
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century [re-cut], Medieval [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: oeiginal church documented ca. 1100; major re-building 14th-15thC; redundant since 1978
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There are five entries for Gloucester [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO8318/gloucester/] [accessed 12 April 2020] none of which mentions priest or church in it. The Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 4, 1988) notes: "In 1100 the bishop settled a portion of 20s. in the church, in Northgate Street, on Gloucester Abbey. [...] St. John's church, which was shared with Methodists from 1972 and renamed St. John Northgate, [...] became a chapel of ease in 1975, when its parish was united with that of St. Mary de Crypt church, [...] and was declared redundant and vested in the Gloucester Diocesan Trust in 1978. The Methodists, who then took a long lease of the building, made a new sharing agreement with the Anglicans. [...] Fittings retained from the medieval church include a font which has been recut". Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. C15, plain, octagonal." [NB: given the shape of this font now it is very unlikely that it would have been the one from the 12th-century church here]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.8665,
-2.24476
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 51′ 59.4″ N,
2° 14′ 41.14″ W
UTM: 30U 552001 5746460
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat, round and plain; modern
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-06-21 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002