Gautby ( ) is a village in the
East Lindsey
East Lindsey is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England. The population of the district council was 136,401 at the 2011 census. The council is based in Manby. Other major settlements in the district include Alford, Wragby, Spilsby ...
district of
Lincolnshire, England. The village is situated north-west from the town of
Horncastle, and is part of the Minting
civil parish.
Gautby
parish church is dedicated to
All Saints, and is a Grade II*
listed building, rebuilt in 1754 of red brick, incorporating some medieval work by
Robert Vyner of Gautby Park as a family chapel.
[ Inside, there are two reclining stone figure English church monuments: on the north side, Thomas Vyner, and on the south, Sir Thomas Vyner, former lord mayor of london. Originally in St Mary Woolnoth church, London, they were both erected 1672, and moved by Sir Robert Vyner when Gautby church was rebuilt.][Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' p. 135; Methuen & Co. Ltd]
Gautby Hall, the ancient seat of the Vyner family, was destroyed in 1874. Set in Gautby Great Park it was, according to ''Pevsner'', probably designed by Matthew Brettingham
Matthew Brettingham (1699 – 19 August 1769), sometimes called Matthew Brettingham the Elder, was an 18th-century Englishman who rose from humble origins to supervise the construction of Holkham Hall, and become one of the country's best-known ...
; the park has returned to arable land but the hall's stables and lake with island still remain.[ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; ''The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire'' p. 247; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram in 1989, Yale University Press. ] On the island was an equestrian statue of Charles I "trampling on a prostrate foe", recorded by '' Kelly's Directory'' in 1885.[''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, p. 412] ''Pevsner'' relates that this statue by Jasper Latham is now at Newby Hall, North Yorkshire.[
There are two possible ]deserted medieval village
In the United Kingdom, a deserted medieval village (DMV) is a former settlement which was abandoned during the Middle Ages, typically leaving no trace apart from earthworks or cropmarks. If there are fewer than three inhabited houses the convent ...
s west of Gautby; Little Minting, and Thorley. However, no earthworks
Earthworks may refer to:
Construction
*Earthworks (archaeology), human-made constructions that modify the land contour
* Earthworks (engineering), civil engineering works created by moving or processing quantities of soil
*Earthworks (military), m ...
have been found. Unlike Gautby, both are mentioned in the 1086 '' Domesday Book'', when Little Minting was recorded as having 28 households, of meadow and of woodland. Thorley was recorded as having four households, of meadow, and of woodland.
References
External links
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Gautby Heraldry
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Villages in Lincolnshire
Civil parishes in Lincolnshire
East Lindsey District