Gaulby / Galbi / Galby
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/gaulby-church-st-peters/] [accessed 11 August 2015]
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view of church interior - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/gaulby-church-st-peters/] [accessed 11 August 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/gaulby-church-st-peters/] [accessed 11 August 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12215GAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1184?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter, Gaulby
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Front Street, Gaulby, Leicestershire LE7 9BB, UK
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located S of the A47/Leicester Rd., NW of King's Norton, 12-13 km ESE of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree
Additional Comments: disappeared font(s)? (the one from the ca.1184 church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Gaulby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK6901/gaulby/] [accessed 11 August 2015, neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818). The Victoria County History (Leicestershire, vol. 5, 1964) notes: "Galby church was granted to the hospital of Burton Lazars by William Burdet before 1184. [...] The 12th-century church, which may have been built by William Burdet, has completely disappeared. The only part of the later building to survive the alterations of 1741 is the chancel, and this appears to date from the very end of the Gothic period. [...] The church was said to be in need of repair in 1776 when it lacked a font cover, royal arms, Creed and Commandment boards, a table of prohibited degrees, and a list of benefactions. [...] The font may date from 1741". Pevsner (1984) states: "Font and font cover. Probably of 1741". [NB: we have no information on font of the original late-12th century church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 637109 5830022
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.602892, -0.97538
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 36′ 10.41″ N, 0° 58′ 31.37″ W
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984, p. 159
- Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. II, part II, p. 503] and pl. xcvii. [on the letter-press] / [http://books.google.com/books?id=gLwuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228&dq=upcott+1818&source=web&ots=lJwT-K00zU&sig=oVT6Kc6G03vqjYf4Synuk_Aek9w#PPP15,M1] [accessed 23 September 2007]