Walton Cardiff / Waltone
INFORMATION
Font ID: 18111WAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Late Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James [demolished]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Church Notes: founded probably before 1250; closed 1975; demolished thereafter
Site Location: Gloucestershire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A38, 2 km ESE of Tewkesbury town centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Tewkesbury, lower division
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the medieval church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Walton [Cardiff] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO9032/walton-cardiff/] [accessed 19 October 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 8, 1968) notes: "There was a chapel of Walton Cardiff by 1249 [...] The church built in 1658 [...] may have incorporated some of the medieval fabric, for in 1865 it was thought to have been built in the early 14th century." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this church.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 559332 5759834
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.986324, -2.147044
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.