Monument record 0043500000 - CHAPEL CLOSE, GAWCOTT HAMLET

Summary

Site of a medieval chapel at Gawcott

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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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)
Civil Parish BUCKINGHAM, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Jun 9 2022 9:32PM

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