Gumley / Godmundelai [Domesday] / Gutmundeslea [Domesday] [disappeared?]

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view of church exterior - north view

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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/gumley-church-st-helens/] [accessed 12 August 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the modern font and cover are visible on the right, by the south arcade [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/gumley-church-st-helens/] [accessed 12 August 2015]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 12221GUM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helen
Church Patron Saints: St. Helena
Church Location: Gumley, Leicestershire LE16 7RX
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located just W of Foxton, 18 km SE of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Font Notes:
There are two entries for Gumley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6890/gumley/] [accessed 12 August 2015], one of which mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one here. The Victoria County History (Leicestershire, 1964) notes: "There was a priest at Gumley in 1086. [...] The church [...] stands in the grounds of Gumley Hall [...] The building is largely of the 14th century but the chancel was completely rebuilt during a restoration of the fabric in 1874-6. [...] the font was described as 'recently installed' in 1866 [footnote: 'T.L.A.S., iii, 172; Leic. Mun. Room, 245'50/3']". Pevsner (1984) has: "Font, screen, and seating [...] by Bodley" [NB: Pevsner refers to G.F. Bodley, responsible for the 1874-1876 restoration of this church, but the VCH entry (above) suggests that "the pews probably date from 1825" and the font, as seen above, from ca. 1866, therefore neither by Bodley?]. [NB: we have no information on the original font of the Domesday-time church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.505466, -0.999599
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 30′ 19.68″ N, 0° 59′ 58.55″ W
UTM: 30U 635769 5819141

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-09-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Leicestershire and Rutland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984