Gloucester No. 6 / Glouuecestre / Glowecestre
INFORMATION
FontID: 18083GLO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity [demolished in 1699]
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: [stood in the middle of Westgate Street by the entrance to Bull Lane] [cf. FontNotes]
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
Font Notes:
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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 the middle of Westgate Street by the entrance to Bull Lane, [...] had been built by 1176 [...] and was called a minster (monasterium) in the early 13th century [...] was partly destroyed by fire in 1223 [...] After the Restoration it was rarely used for services and became dilapidated, and in 1699 it was pulled down." [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.