Gloucester No. 7 / Glouuecestre / Glowecestre

INFORMATION

FontID: 18084GLO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Aldate [aka St. Adhelm's, St. Lawrence's] [demolished]
Church Patron Saints: St. Aldate [cf. FontNotes]
Church Location: [stood on the south side of St. Aldate Street] [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: 11th - 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: "The church, known sometimes as St. Aldhelm, [...] stood on the south side of St. Aldate Street. It may have been built before the Conquest but is not recorded until 1205 when the living was a rectory. [...] In 1387 it was called St. Laurence. [...] In 1653 the city corporation agreed that the churchwardens of St. Michael's could demolish the church, use the fabric in repairing their church, and inclose the churchyard. [...] The corporation completed the demolition of St. Aldate's church in 1655 [...] Work began in the 1740s and the [new] church, which was on or near the site of the medieval church, (fn. 133) was used for services from 1756. [...] The surviving parish registers cover the periods 1572–1646 and 1756–1931." [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.