Gloucester No. 4 / Glouuecestre / Glowecestre

INFORMATION

FontID: 18081GLO
Church/Chapel: Cathedral Church of The Holy and Indivisible Trinity [earlier Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter]
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity [until the Reformation it was dedicated to St. Peter]
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: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1663?
Century and Period: 17th century, Restoration
Workshop/Group/Artisan: portable font / wooden font
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

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

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-06-21 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.