Goosey / Gosei / Goseig / Goseya / Gosi / Gosie / Gossehay
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view of font and cover in context - west side
Scene Description: the old font at the west end of the centre aisle -- the plinth appears modern
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Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross & Britain Exptess Ltd [www.britainexpress.com/counties/oxfordshire/churches/goosey.htm] [accessed 10 February 2020]
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Downer, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 November 2016 by Chris Downer [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5193993] [accessed 10 February 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Downer, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 November 2016 by Chris Downer [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5193996] [accessed 10 February 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of basin and cover in context - west side
Scene Description: the old font at the west end of the centre aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Downer, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 November 2016 by Chris Downer [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5193997] [accessed 10 February 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 17722GOO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: originally 13thC(?) chapel attached to Abingdon Abbey
Church Address: Goosey Ln, Goosey, Wantage SN7 8PA, UK -- Tel.: +44 1367 710267
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A417, 2-3 km SE of Stanford-in-the-Vale, 7 km NW of Wantage, in the Vale of White Horse
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxfordshire
Historical Region: Hundred of Marcham -- formerly in Berkshire
Additional Comments: painted font: late-date paint? [cf. FontNotes] -- disappeared font? (the one from the earlier church here?)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Goosey [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey https://opendomesday.org/place/SU3591/goosey/] [accessed 10 February 2020] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Kelly's Directory of Berkshire (1899) reports an octagonal font here. Keyser (1914) notes: "The Chapel [...] seems to have been built early in the 13th century, though one round-headed window on the north of the nave may indicate an earlier date. [...] The font is of rather uncertain character. It has a large octagonal bowl on slightly smaller stem, and has at some comparatively modern time been embellished with paint." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU3563891654] notes; "Church. Early/mid C13; late C16 chancel; restored and north-west vestry built in the C19"; no font mentioned in it.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to digital photograph by David Ross & Britain Exptess Ltd [www.britainexpress.com] for the photograph of this font
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.622107, -1.488605
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 37′ 19.59″ N, 1° 29′ 18.98″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain, with ring handle; modern
REFERENCES
- Kempthorne, G.A., Captain, "Sandhurst, Berks.", 20, No.1 (1914), Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archaeological Journal, 1914, pp. 21-25; p. 34-35