Goosey / Gosei / Goseig / Goseya / Gosi / Gosie / Gossehay

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view of basin and cover in context - west side

Scene Description: the old font at the west end of the centre aisle

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

view of church exterior - north view

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

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 font and cover in context - west side

Scene Description: the old font at the west end of the centre aisle -- the plinth appears modern

Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross & Britain Exptess Ltd [www.britainexpress.com/counties/oxfordshire/churches/goosey.htm] [accessed 10 February 2020]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 17722GOO

Church/Chapel: Chapel of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Goosey Ln, Goosey, Wantage SN7 8PA, UK -- Tel.: +44 1367 710267

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: , Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to digital photograph by David Ross & Britain Exptess Ltd [www.britainexpress.com] for the photograph of this font

Church Notes: originally 13thC(?) chapel attached to Abingdon Abbey

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.622107, -1.488605

Church 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; r["References"]