Gissing
| Gissing | |
| Norfolk | |
|---|---|
 St Mary, Gissing | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TM146855 |
| Location: | 52°25’33"N, 1°9’19"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 257 (2021) |
| Post town: | Diss |
| Postcode: | IP22 |
| Dialling code: | 01379 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | South Norfolk |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Waveney Valley |
Gissing is a village in Norfolk, found about six miles north of Diss and 15 miles south-west of Norwich.
The 2021 census recorded Gissing with a population of 257.
The village's name derives from the Old English for Gyssa's or Gyssi's people.[1]
History
In the Domesday Book, Gissing is listed as a settlement of 55 households in the Diss Hundred. In 1086, the village was divided between the estates of the King, Robert Malet, Roger Bigod and the Abbey of St. Edmund.[2]
Gissing Hall, a 15th century mansion house, is within the parish. Today the hall operates as a hotel and restaurant.[3]
During the Second World War, a pillbox and searchlight battery were built in Gissing to defend against a possible German invasion.[4]
On 29 January 1944, two Consolidated B-24 Liberators of the United States Army Air Force collided in mid-air above Gissing whilst assembling for a strategic bombing raid on Frankfurt. A total of 14 aviators were killed in the collision.[5]
Parish church
Gissing's parish church, St Mary, on Lower Street, is one of Norfolk's 124 remaining round-tower churches, dating from the eleventh century. St Mary's is a Grade I listed building.[6]
The church is the focus for an active Friends of Gissing Church who raise funds for maintenance projects on the building.[7]
St. Mary's holds an elaborate mausoleum to the Kemp family and several marble monuments inside.[8]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Gissing) |
- St Mary's: European Round Tower Churches
References
- ↑ Place-Names
- ↑ Gissing in the Domesday Book
- ↑ "MNF10942 - Norfolk Heritage Explorer". https://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?MNF10942.
- ↑ "MNF18475 - Norfolk Heritage Explorer". https://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?MNF18475.
- ↑ Ranter, Harro. "Mid-air collision Accident Consolidated B-24J Liberator 42-100005, Saturday 29 January 1944". https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/wiki.php?id=101061.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1152891: Church of St Mary, Gissing (Grade I listing)
- ↑ Friends of Gissing Church
- ↑ "Norfolk Churches". http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/gissing/gissing.htm.