Gunby nr. Candlesby / Gunnebi

There is no individual entry for this Gunby in the Domesday survey [cf. infra regarding the two churches reported in Candlesby in Domesday]. The entry for this church in Edmund Oldfield's A topographical and historical account of Wainfleet and the Wapentake of Candleshoe, in the County of Lincoln (London: Longman, [etc.], 1829: p. [193]) notes that at the time the church building appeared "to have been erected out of a lrger building. The font is ancient and plain." This account was written fifty years before the re-building of the medieval church there, a building that was itself, according to Oldfiled [cf. supra] a modified construction from a larger older church. Oldfield (ibid.) does not give a date of the original church, but , as Oldfield further notes in his entry for Steeping Magna [cf. Index entry for it], a portion of Gunby was included in the Steeping Magna retur which reported two churches in it, and states that it is highly probable that one of the churches was actyally Gunby's. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF4687666826] notes: "Parish church. Rebuilt 1870 in Early English style by James Fowler. [...] The fittings are all C19, including octaqonal font in C13 style with blank pointed arcades to base and stone pulpit." The modern font here is illustrated in the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology [http://www.slha.org.uk/photogallery/?thistopic=Churches_InteriorFonts] [accessed 11 November 2018].