Gautby
| Gautby | |
| Lincolnshire | |
|---|---|
 Church of All Saints, Gautby | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TF173723 |
| Location: | 53°14’7"N, 0°14’36"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Market Rasen |
| Postcode: | LN8 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Lindsey |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Louth and Horncastle |
Gautby is a village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire, in Lindsey's Gartree Wapentake, sitting six miles north-west of the little town of Horncastle, and by Minting, to whose civil parish it has been allocated.
Parish church
The parish church, All Saints, is of mediaeval origin but was rebuilt in 1754 in red brick, incorporating some mediæval work. The rebuilding was at the instance of Robert Vyner (1686-1777) of Gautby Park so it could serve as a family chapel.[1] The church is a Grade II* listed building.[1]
Inside, there are two reclining stone figure monuments: on the north side, Thomas Vyner, and on the south, Sir Thomas Vyner, former lord mayor of london. The monuments were originally in St Mary Woolnoth Church in the City of London, both erected 1672, and moved by Sir Robert Vyner when Gautby church was rebuilt. A further memorial, an incised slab, records the murder of Frederick G. Vyner by Greek brigands in 1870.[2]
About the village
Gautby Hall, the ancient seat of the Vyner family, was destroyed in 1874.[3] Set in Gautby Great Park it was, according to Pevsner, probably designed by Matthew Brettingham; the park has returned to arable land but the hall's stables[4] and lake with island still remain.[5] On the island was an equestrian statue of King Charles I "trampling on a prostrate foe", recorded by Kelly's Directory in 1885.[6] Pevsner relates that this statue by Jasper Latham is now at Newby Hall in Yorkshire.[5]
There are two possible deserted mediæval villages west of Gautby; Little Minting, and Thorley. However, no earthworks have been found. Unlike Gautby, both are mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book, in which Little Minting was recorded as having 28 households, 260 acres of meadow and 1,110 acres of woodland.[7] Thorley was recorded as having four households, 175 acres of meadow, and 680 acres of woodland.[8]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 National Heritage List 1359914: All Saints Church, Gautby (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire p. 135; Methuen & Co. Ltd
- ↑ Gautby Hall and fishpond: Lincs to the Past
- ↑ National Heritage List 1359913: Old Hall Stables (Grade II listing)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1964; 1989 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09620-0page 247
- ↑ Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 412
- ↑ Minting Gautby in the Domesday Book
- ↑ Gautby in the Domesday Book
