Prescott nr. Cheltenham / Prescot
INFORMATION
Font ID: 18108PRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of Prescott [aka Church of Stanley Pontlarge?] [disappeared?]
Church Patron Saint(s): dedication unknown
Church Address: [NB: coordinates given are for Gotherington] cf. FontNotes]
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 4 km W of Winchcombe, 8 km NE of Cheltenham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Tewkesbury
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (or is this the font listed in Stanley Pntlarge St Michael's?)
Font Notes:
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**********NOT CLEAR WHETHER THIS IS THE SAME AS THE CHURCH LISTED IN STANLEY PONTLARGE*********
No individual entry found for Prescott in the Domesday survey. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 6, 1965) notes: "Prescott was presumably once part of the large parish of Winchcombe. In 1175 a chapel at Prescott was confirmed to Winchcombe Abbey as a dependency of the parish church there [...] It is not clear whether Winchcombe or Tewkesbury monks, if either, served the chapel at Prescott; no document has been found giving evidence of the chapel between 1175 and 1570, when it had gone out of use and its site alone was mentioned. [...] The site of the chapel was between Chapel Close Farm and Manor Farm." The entry for this chapel in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO9992430202] notes: "Chapel of Ease. C12, altered C15 and 1860-1, by Thomas Collins of Tewkesbury. [...] Possibly C12 limestone font with moulded circular base and an octagonal bowl, possibly recut, towards the west end of the nave." [NB: we have no information on a baptismal font of that chapel/church].
No individual entry found for Prescott in the Domesday survey. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 6, 1965) notes: "Prescott was presumably once part of the large parish of Winchcombe. In 1175 a chapel at Prescott was confirmed to Winchcombe Abbey as a dependency of the parish church there [...] It is not clear whether Winchcombe or Tewkesbury monks, if either, served the chapel at Prescott; no document has been found giving evidence of the chapel between 1175 and 1570, when it had gone out of use and its site alone was mentioned. [...] The site of the chapel was between Chapel Close Farm and Manor Farm." The entry for this chapel in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO9992430202] notes: "Chapel of Ease. C12, altered C15 and 1860-1, by Thomas Collins of Tewkesbury. [...] Possibly C12 limestone font with moulded circular base and an octagonal bowl, possibly recut, towards the west end of the nave." [NB: we have no information on a baptismal font of that chapel/church].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 565266 5757757
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.