GODSTOW ABBEY


Description:  Benedictine Nunnery founded circa 1133 dissolved 1539 surviving as the ruins of a 16th century chapel and enclosure with part of wall. Partly excavated, although no details of the layout had been revealed. Stone coffins have been discovered. Descriptions of the buildings shortly after the Dissolution, and an engraving by Wood in the 17th century, indicate that the claustral complex included chapels, a chapterhouse, three dorters, a kitchen, atrium, garner, gatehouse and guest lodgings. There also appears to have been a granary to the north of the church. Earthworks associated with the nunnery, including a moat, enclosures, field boundaries, ditches and a fish pond, were mapped from air photographs by the RCHME's Thames Valley NMP project. Earlier periods are represented by Romano- British sherds found during excavations.

Country:  ENGLAND

County:  OXFORDSHIRE

District:  OXFORD

Parish:  OXFORD

Grid Reference:   SP48410909

Map Reference:  [EPSG:27700] 448410, 209090

Period:  MEDIEVAL, POST MEDIEVAL, 1133 - 1539, ROMAN

Subject:  ABBEY, BENEDICTINE NUNNERY, CHAPEL, CHAPTER HOUSE, CHURCH, CLOISTER, COFFIN, DITCH, DORMITORY, EARTHWORK, ENCLOSURE, EXTANT BUILDING, FIELD BOUNDARY, FIND, FINDSPOT, FISHPOND, GATEHOUSE, GRANARY, GUEST HOUSE, KITCHEN, MOAT, REFECTORY, STRUCTURE, SUB SURFACE DEPOSIT, VESSEL

Identifiers: 
[ADS] Depositor Id: SP 40 NE 24
[ADS] Import RCN: NMR_NATINV-336345

People Involved: 
[Publisher] Historic England