Gloucester No. 3 / Glouuecestre / Glowecestre

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14106GLO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas [aka St. Nicholas of the Bridge at Gloucester] [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Westgate Street, Gloucester GL1 2PG
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located in lower Westgate St. 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: 16th century, Tudor
Church Notes: the church is redundant, and in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust since 1975
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: "The church, in lower Westgate Street, had parochial rights by the end of the 12th century [...] and was described as a minster (monasterium) in the early 13th. [...] the church, which was closed in 1967, [...] was declared redundant in 1971 [...] The parish registers, which contain entries for the castle, survive from 1558." The VCH entry does not mention a font in this parish]. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Plain, octagonal, quite large; perhaps C16."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.8685, -2.2492
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 52′ 6.6″ N, 2° 14′ 57.12″ W
UTM: 30U 551693 5746679

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-06-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002