Dixton / Dricle

INFORMATION

Font ID: 18107DIX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of All Saints [demolished]
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: coordinates given are for Dixon Manor [cf. FontNotes] [cf. FontNotes]
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: The disappeared church was located near Alderton, by Dixton Manor
Historical Region: Hundred of Tewkesbury
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the disappeared 12thC chapel of ease)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Dixton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO9830/dixton/] [accessed 17 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 6, 1965) notes: "The chapel of All Saints at Dixton was, like Alderton church, a chapel to Winchcombe in 1175. [...] It was disused in the early 18th century [...] was demolished apparently in the early 19th century when alterations were made to the manor-house, near the north side of which it stood." [NB: we have no information on its font].

REFERENCES

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