Monument record 0043500000 - CHAPEL CLOSE, GAWCOTT HAMLET
Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Map
Type and Period (1)
- CHAPEL (Medieval - 1066 AD? to 1539 AD?)
Description
Said to have been formerly a chapel dedicated to St Catherine. Still a feast held at her festival (B1).
Chapel dedicated to St Andrew (B2-3).
Site of chapel granted in 1586 to John Walton (B4).
Field identified as 'Chapel Close'. No visible features. School now occupies N part of field (B5).
'Gawcott...had a chapel in former times, as is proved by a field retaining the name of 'Chapel Close' and shewing marks of ancient Building' (B6).
Sources (6)
- <1>SBC16740 Bibliographic reference: WILLIS B 1755 HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF BUCKINGHAM PP38-39.
- <2>SBC7607 Bibliographic reference: LIPSCOMB 2 P591.
- <3>SBC14161 Bibliographic reference: SHEAHAN P250.
- <4>SBC20462 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1925. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume III. Volume 3. p487.
- <5>SBC13724 Verbal communication: Andrew Pike (BCM). 1977. REV NEWELL & MR BARRETT TO A R PIKE (BCM).
- <6>SBC19667 Article in serial: Ian Toplis, George Clarke, Ian Beckett & Hugh Hanley (eds). 1998. Sir Gilbert Scott's Recollections of Buckinghamshire, in Bucks Record Society No. 31. No. 31. p15.
Location
Grid reference | Centred SP 67903 31605 (0m by 1m) |
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Civil Parish | BUCKINGHAM, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire |
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Record last edited
Jun 9 2022 9:32PM