GOSFIELD, a parish in the hundred of HINCKFORD,
county of ESSEX, 2 miles (W. S.W.) from Halstead, containing
598 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese
of London, rated in the king's books at £ 8, endowed
with £400 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty.-
The Duke of Buckingham was patron in 1782. The
church is dedicated to St. Catherine. A portion of Gosfield-
hall exhibits a good specimen of the domestic style
of architecture prevalent in the reign of Henry VIII.