Gloucester No. 13 / Glouuecestre / Glowecestre

INFORMATION

Font ID: 18090GLO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century (late?), Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Owen [demolished before 1643]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Owen [aka Audoen, Audoenus, Audoin, Dado, Ouen]
Church Address: [stood outside the south gate]
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? (the one from the late-11thC 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, 2012) notes: "The church, outside the south gate, was probably founded in the late 11th century [...] St. Owen's church was pulled down just before the siege in 1643", at which time the parish of St. Owen's was united with St. Mary de Crypt . The benefice is now called 'St. Mary de Crypt with All Saints and St. Owen'. The site of the old church of St. Owen was a carpark in 2010 [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here].

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.