Gloucester No. 5 / Glouuecestre / Glowecestre

INFORMATION

FontID: 18082GLO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [suppressed]
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: [originally stood at the Cross on the south side of Westgate Street]
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: [cf. FontNotes]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Dudstone
Century and Period: 12th century, Medieval
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: "No documentary evidence of the church, at the Cross on the south side of Westgate Street, [...] has been found until the mid 12th century [...] All Saints was described as a minster (monasterium) in the early 13th century [...] The city corporation, which used the church as a powder store in 1643, [...] incorporated it within the Tolsey at a rebuilding in 1648." [NB: we have no information on the font from the medieval church here].

REFERENCES

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