Goodworth Clatford / Godewirda / Godeworth / Godorde / Good / Good Clatford / Goodworth Clasford / Gudeworth / Lower Clatford / Nether Clatford

Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period here [NB: C&H use the form "Goodsworth Clasford"]. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "The church of Goodworth Clatford belonged originally to Wherwell Abbey, and there was a prebend of Goodworth there. [...] In 1343 Abbess Amice granted to John of Shaftesbury, prebendary of Goodworth, and his successors a piece of land (in length 12 perches, in breadth 7 perches) in the town of Goodworth, adjoining the rector [...] The furniture in the church is all modern except the font, which has a bowl and base dating from the end of the 12 th century. The former is of Purbeck marble, square in plan with sloping sides, which are worked with shallow round-headed arcades on three sides, and two quatrefoiled leaf patterns on the fourth; the round stem and four angle shafts are modern, but the base is old, with angle spurs." The Baxian.org web site has: "The Norman font is a restored Purbeck marble table type with tapering sides. The top has light mouldings, and the sides have interest designs. To the south and east are six depressed round arches. The west face has four depressed round arches with a smaller round arch within the northernmost arch, which also exhibits part of a large circle. To the right of the arches are two circles and part of a larger circle. The north face has no arches but two rectangular panels, each with a St Andrews cross within a wavy square field . The font stands on a central fat column with four smaller columns at the angles. They have heavy vertical grooves from when they were dressed, and are either heavily restored or renewed. Moulded base with spurs, and a circular plinth of stone below." Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "bowl with six panels on each of three faces and two quatrefoil leaf patterns on the fourth; central stem and subsidiary shafts modern; base with angle spurs is original" [source given: VCH, 4, 1911].