Gatesbury

No entry found for Gatesbury in the Domesday survey. The entry for Braughing in the Victoria County History (Hertford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The chapel of ST. JAMES, GATESBURY, was probably founded by one of the Gatesbury family. It was granted by Richard de Gatesbury to the canons of Holy Trinity [...] on condition that the canons celebrated four masses weekly in the chapel. [...] In 1487 Henry Elveden, successor of Richard de Gatesbury, commuted the masses to two, to be celebrated weekly in the chapel of Holy Trinity within the nave of the conventual church. [...] Probably the chapel fell into decay after this. The advowson was still mentioned in an inquisition on Henry Elveden in 1515." The VCH [cf. supra] mentions two Richards of Gatesbury, descendants from John of Gatesbury, who held the manor of Westmill in Braughing at the end othe 12th century, and the ese two Richards are identified at the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century respectively; this would put the date of the chapel at about that time at the latest. There is no physical evidence of the chapel now and we have no information on its font.