Gloucester No. 6 / Glouuecestre / Glowecestre

INFORMATION

Font ID: 18083GLO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity [demolished in 1699]
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Address: [stood in the middle of Westgate Street by the entrance to Bull Lane] [cf. FontNotes]
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? [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) 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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.