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

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view of church exterior - north 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 exterior - south view

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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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]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12221GUM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Helen
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Helena
Church Address: Gumley, Leicestershire LE16 7RX, UK
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just W of Foxton, 18 km SE of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original Domesday-time church here)
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

UTM: 30U 635769 5819141
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.505466, -0.999599
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 30′ 19.68″ N, 0° 59′ 58.55″ 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. 171