Goxhill / Golse

There is a multiple-place entry for Goxhill [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TA1844/goxhill/] [accessed 5 November 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Moule (1837) writes: "The font, a circular basin, enriched with interlaced work of the eleventh century, lies broken outside the church." Mann (1985) mentions a 12th-century Norman baptismal font at the parish church in Goxhill, a font that "was found in a garden at Hornsea and its original site is not known"; it is decorated with a tree (Tree of life?) and foliage motif. Pevsner & Neave (1995) write: "Font. Half renewed. It is Norman of drum shape, partly with small diapering, partly rosettes; also a Tree of Life.- (The early C19 octagonal marble font has been removed to Aldbrough church.)" The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York East Riding, vol. 7, 2002) notes: "A church existed at Goxhill by the early 13th century, when a rector was recorded. [...] The church of ST. GILES, so called in 1412, was in disrepair by the early 18th century and was largely rebuilt in 1786 [...] The tower was replaced in 1817, and in 1840 the Revd. Charles Constable paid for the rest of the church to be rebuilt once again. [...] A restored 12th-century tub font, found at Hornsea, [...] and the stonework of a 15th-century piscina [...] are also preserved in the church. The modern font was removed to West Newton chapel-of-ease, in Aldbrough, in 1939." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TA1852944821] notes: "Church. Rebuilt, 1840 [...] nave: C12 tub font, much repaired, with incised interlace and roundels with wheels". The reconstruction of this font is indeed quite significant, but an effort to respect and replicate the surviving patterns has been made. This is one of the Norman tub fonts that displays a variety of motifs all around, depending on the side. Of the rosettes described above, which are all inscribed in circles, some are actually wheels and, at least one, a Maltese cross. To the right of the Tree of Life, there is an interlace pattern of linked circles. The underbowl sides appear to be completely new, and it is questionable whether the original had the scalloped pattern filled with foliage it now shows. The rest of the base, a squat cylindrical stem ànd a token plinth, is also modern, as is the round wooden cover.