Eyford / Aiforde

INFORMATION

FontID: 18105EYF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church [abandoned in the 16thC?]
Church Location: [NB: the disappeared church is thought to have been located near this address and coordinates: Upper Slaughter, Cheltenham GL54 2JN, UK]
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B4068, 5 km W of Stow-on-the-Wold, 5 km NW of Bourton-on-the-Water
Historical Region: Hundred of Salmonsbury [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Slaughter
Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Eyford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP1424/eyford/] [accessed 13 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The National Gazetteer of 1868 reports the church disappeared before 1857: "There is no church, the inhabitants attending the church of Upper Slaughter". The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 6, 1965) notes: "There was a church at Eyford by 1273 [...] the church was allowed to decay, and the churchyard was used as a close in the 16th century; [...] it was afterwards believed that Eyford church had been a chapel of ease of Upper Slaughter that had been demolished."

REFERENCES

The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-07-05 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.