Gloucester No. 12 / Glouuecestre / Glowecestre

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, 2012) notes: "The church, at the Cross on the south side of Eastgate Street, [...] had been built by the mid 12th century [...] Architectural evidence suggests that the church was rebuilt in the early 14th century [...] The church underwent a major reconstruction in 1653 and 1654"; a major re-building is noted in the VCH (ibid.) in the mid-19th century, with further restoration in the later years of the 1800s. [...] After the Second World War the church [...] was not reopened and in the years 1955–6 it was demolished except for the tower. [...] The registers of St. Michael's parish survive from 1553." The VCH entry for this parish (ibid.) also notes the chapel of St. Martin, "at the Cross on the north side of Eastgate Street, [...] recorded in the mid 12th century [...] was a chapel to St. Michael in the mid 13th". It is not indicated whether this chapel had baptismal privileges at some point, although the "Crown presented a priest to it in 1334". [NB: we have no information on the medieval font of this parish].