Gloucester No. 4 / Glouuecestre / Glowecestre

INFORMATION

Font ID: 18081GLO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1663?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Restoration
Workshop/Group/Artisan: portable font / wooden font
Church / Chapel Name: Cathedral Church of The Holy and Indivisible Trinity [earlier Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity [until the Reformation it was dedicated to St. Peter]
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? [cf. FontNotes]
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) reports that the cathedral suffered some damage in the siege of Gloucester of 1643, after which "a portable wooden font was made in 1663". There is no information in the VCH entry about the fate or whereabouts of this wooden font.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 551869 5746570
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.8675, -2.246667
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 52′ 3″ N, 2° 14′ 48″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.