Frisby / Friseby / Frisby by Galby

INFORMATION

Font ID: 13146FRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1220?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?), Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of St. James [former chapel-of-ease to Galby]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: The modern Frisby i located off (S) the A47, near Billesdon and Galby/Gaulby, S of the A47, 13 km ESE of Leicester. The Medieval hamlet of Frisby is a scheduled ancient monument located to the SE
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Gartree
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC (?) chapel-of-ease here)
Font Notes:
There are two entries for this Frisby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK7001/frisby/] [accessed 11 August 2015], one of which mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one here. A church and font here are illustrated in Upcott (1818: plates xxxvi and xxxix) [NB: the chapel and its font would have long disppeared by Upcott's time; were these the ones from Frisby-onthe-Wreake?]. The Victoria County History (Leicestershire, vol. 5, 1964) notes: "The chapel at Frisby is first mentioned about 1220, when it was attached to Galby church and was served three days in the week from Galby. (fn. 134) It is not known when the chapel was founded. [...] The chapel was dedicated to ST. JAMES, and stood on what is now a grassy mound south of Frisby House Farm and on the east side of the lane which runs south from the Galby-Billesdon road. This mound was known as Chapel Mount, and some rooftimbers have been recovered from it. The chapel is last known to have been in use in 1533, when William Ward of Frisby made a bequest to it. The building was still in existence in 1591, but had completely disappeared by the beginning of the 18th century."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 637289 5844546

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. III, part I, p. 511 and pl. xxxvi and xxxix / [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 27 September 2007]