Gloucester No. 5 / Glouuecestre / Glowecestre

INFORMATION

Font ID: 18082GLO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [suppressed]
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: [originally stood at the Cross on the south side of Westgate Street]
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: [cf. FontNotes]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Dudstone
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (from the 12thC church here)
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: "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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.