Monument record 0043500000 - CHAPEL CLOSE, GAWCOTT HAMLET

Summary

Site of a medieval chapel at Gawcott - Possible site of a Mediaeval chapel in Chapel Close. It had disappeared by 1755.

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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).

Site of a Chapel at Gawcot (Gawcott) dedicated to St Catherine, in a field called Chapel Close, the lane leading to it called Chapel Lane. No remains existed in c 1755 (B9).
Chapel Close is the field centred SP 680 316 and is all ridge and furrow on RAF AP (b). It is possible that the field has been sub-divided and originally included that to the E which has a small enclosure at its N end at SP680318. A new school has been recently built in this area but no traces of a former chapel were reported. The present church is E 19th c and stands N of the school at the end of Church Lane which it seems likely was formerly Chapel Lane (B7).

NRHE insert 2005 (B10).

Sources (10)

<1>SBC16730 Bibliographic reference: Browne Willis. 1755. The History and Antiquities of the Town, Hundred and Deanry of Buckingham. pp38-39.
<2>SBC26952 Bibliographic reference: George Lipscomb. 1847. The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham (Volume 2). Volume 2. p591.
<3>SBC19727 Bibliographic reference: James Joseph Sheahan. 1862. History and Topography of Buckinghamshire. 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.
<7>SBC28670 Verbal communication: Bernard Harley Seaman. 1973. Field Investigators Comments - F1 BHS 05-OCT-73.
<8>SBC28686 Aerial Photograph: 1947. CPE/UK 2008 16 Apr 47 4020.
<9>SBC28687 Article in serial: W H Kelke. 1855. 'The Desecrated Churches of Buckionghamshire, Deanery of Buckingham', in Records of Buckinghamshire Vol 1 Part 3, Pages 81 - 85. p81.
<10>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE).

Location

Grid reference	Centred SP 67903 31605 (0m by 1m)
Civil Parish	BUCKINGHAM, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Dec 22 2025 4:16PM