Guist / Gegesete / Geggeset / Geggesete / Geiste / Geseta / Geyst

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 19 September 1992 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/G/Guist St Andrew's church from SE [6909] 1992-09-19.jpg] [accessed 3 October 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission by Jonathan Plunkett

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2123857] [accessed 3 October 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 October 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2123860] [accessed 3 October 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the modern font is partially visible in front of the organ

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 October 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2123887] [accessed 3 October 2013]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 October 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2123890] [accessed 3 October 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14882GUI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Norwich Road, Guist, Norfolk NR20 5AJ

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located 10 km SE of Fakenham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred of Eynford

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Jonathan Plunkett for the photograph of this church taken by his father, George Plunkett, in September 1992

Church Notes: the present church is of many periods; the south portal is probably the earliest, 13thC?

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The three Domesday entries for "Gegesete", "Geggesete" and "Geseta" mention neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The Church of Geist is dedicated to St. Andrew, and there was a chapel belonging to it called Geysthorp chapel dedicated to All-Saints, a hamlet, as I take it, belonging to Geist; it was anciently a rectory, after that appropriated to the abbey of Waltham in Essex [...] Sir Ralph de Geist was lord in the reign of King Henry II. and his son Eborard gave this lordship with the advowson of the church, to the abbey of Waltham." That would put the original date of St. Peter's church to between 1086 and Henry II's reign, 1154-1189. The present octagonal font is in the Perpendicular style, decorated with cusped panels containing shields and Tudor roses, but it is probably a 19th-century rendition of it, dating from the Victorian renovation of the old church. [NB: we have no information on the font of the earlier church here].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 362667 5850921

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810