104 GATE HELMSLEY. NORTH RIDING YORKSHIRE. (KELLY"A Taining 3 Bells: the Church Was Thoroughly Restored in Tcnge, of the Mount, York
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104 GATE HELMSLEY. NORTH RIDING YORKSHIRE. (KELLY"a taining 3 bells: the church was thoroughly restored in Tcnge, of the Mount, York. The soil is sandy; su& tSSs-6, at a cost of £1,959, chiefly defrayed by William soil, various. The chief crops are wheat, barley and Benson Richardson esq. J.P.: there are three memorial potatoes. The area is 497 acres; rateable value, windows to the Rev. David Akenhead M.A. vicar of Sand £1,170; the population in 19II was I59· Hutton, and his wife, and one in the chancel to the Rev. Post Office.-.Mrs. Alice Burgess, sub-postmistress-. S. B. Craig M.A. vicar r88o-95: the church affords 130 Letters through York arrive at .20 a.m. & 6. 15 aittings. The register d-ates from about the year 168o. The d' ed oe 7 ... · · · d t U H .. t p.m. ; Is patch at ro. IS a.m. "" 4-SO 011 7.30 p.m.; 1Ivmg Is a VIcarage, annexe 0 pper ems1 1 ey, JOm no delivery of letters on sundays. Stamford Bridge, net yearly value £2oo, including 37 acre9 of glebe, with 2 miles distant, is the nearest money order & tele- residence, in the gift af the Lord Chancellor and the Arch- graph office bishop of York alternately, and held since 1913 by the Rev. Arthur Lionel Whitaker M.A. of Selwyn College, Upper &; Gate Helmsley Public Elementary School, with Cambridge. There is a small Wesleyan chapel in the teacher's residence, erected in I876, for 56 children~ village, built in r8q and rebuilt in 1s64. Thomas average attendance, 45; Miss Grace Lawrie, mistresa Hildyard Richardson esq. of Burn Hall, Easingwold, is The schaol is controlled by 6 managers; Edward A. F. lord of the manor; the principal landowner is Miss W. Herbert e11q B.A., J.P. correspondent Agar Mrs. Helmsley house (postal Whitaker Rev. Arthur Lionel M.A. Grainger Thomas William, farmer address, '\Vest Stamford Bridge, (rector), The Rectory Hart Joseph, horse breaker York) COMMERCIAL. Lindsey Henry, farmer Baldwin Mrs Brown Richard, road contractor Loadman John Benson, farmer Forbes Mra Copeland Charles, potato merchant Potter Elisha, beer retailer Hope Col. Lewis Anstruther C.B. Coupland ChariesT. Three Cups P.H. Shippin William, blacksmith Gate Hebnsley house (postal address, Stamford Bridge, Tattersall Harriet (Mrs.), farmer Larcum John York) Walton Jonathan, Black Horse P.H Loadman John Benson, The Elms Fox Charles, joiner Whitwell Robert, butcher GAYLE, see Hawes. GA YLES, see Kirkby Ravensworth. GILLAMOOR, see Kirby Moorside. GILLING, or East Gilling, is a township, parish and was erected by the late 1.\frs. Barnes, of Gilling Castle, in village, on the road from York to Helmsley, with a sta memory of her parents, Charles Gregory (Pigott) Fair· tion on the Thirsk and Malton branch of the N. E. rail fax (above mentioned) and Mary (Goodricke) his wife~ way, which is also the junction of the line from Pickering she died Jan. 28, 184S: in 1886 a window was placed in through Helmsley, and is 5 miles south from Helmsley, the north aisle as a memorial of the late Mrs. Lavinia 18 north from York and 8! north from Easingwold, in the Barnes, who died Nov. 27, 1885: on the south side of the Whitby division of the Riding, Ryedale wapentake and churchyard is an ancient stone cross, about six feet in petty sessional division, Helmsley union and county court height, discovered under the surface of the soil when the district, rurat deanery of Helmsley, archdeaconry of church was restmed in r8j"6: on the north side, near th~ Cleveland and diocese of York. The church of the Holy tower is a coped tomb with a circular shaft supporting Cross, restored about I854, and again in 1876, at a cost a cross, erected to the Rev. J. A. Barnes M.A. late rec of ,£r,2oo, is an edifice of stone, in the Early English and tor, d. i869, where also his widow, Mrs. Lavinia Barnes, Late Decorated styles, with some Perpendicular addi is buried : a. memorial cross was erected in 1901 to Mrs. tions, consisting of chancel (which is higher than the Janet Duff, sister of the Rev. J. A. Barnes M.A. late nave), nave, aisles, south door, north porch, apparently rector, and to George Ernest Garforth, her grandson: rebuilt in the last century, and an embattled western tower a new organ was provided in 1883: there are 180 sitting&. with small pinnacles containing 3 bells : under an arch in The register dates from the year I573· The living is a the north wall of the chancel is a slab bearing a large rectory, net yearly value £so6, including 4! acres of floriated cross; the quatrefoiled head, deeply sunk, dis glebe, with residence (the tithes of the out townships of closes the head and shoulders of a knight with his hands Cawton and Grimstone are commuted), in the gift of the in prayer, and the trefoiled base similarly shows his feet; Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, and on the right side is his crest, a hind's head, couped ; and hPld since I90I by the Rev. Louie Borissow M . .A. of that on the left his sword, partly concealed by a shield with college. There are two school endowments, producing the arms: on a bend 3 birds, within a bordure en £-::!r yearly, and also charities of about £u ss. yearlr grailed: in the chancel floor is a brass to Robert Welling valuP. Gilling Castle, the property and residence ton, prebendary of Ulleskelfe, in York Minster, and of William Slingsby Hunter esq. D.L., J.P. was anciently rector of Bolton Percy and of thi'! church, ob. Feb. IS, the seat of the Etton family, and subsequently, 1503 : there are inscribed tablets in the chancel to the on the failure of that house in the reign of Henry Rev. John Pigott M.A. rector of Gilling and Oswaldkirk, VII. became the residence of their repreMntatives. d. Aug. IS, 1812, and to the Rev. Thomas Young M.A. the Fairfaxes of Walton; the castle, beautifully situated 23 years rector, d. Nov. n, 1835 ~ at the west end of the on an elliptical and densely wooded hill on the west side south aisle is an altar tomb, with the figure of a female of the village, is chiefly of the Tudor period, but the in marble reclining on two urns, by Joseph Gott esq. of eastern portion is much earlier and includes a keep of the Rome, erected in memory of Thomas Fairfax esq. of time of Ed ward II. and the basement retains a consider· Gilling Castle, d . .Aug. 18, 1828, and 1.\fary his wife: :1 ble amount of Decorated work : the west wing was built there is also a tablet here to Charles Gregory (Pigott) from designs by Sir John Vanbrugh: the Elizabethall Fairfax, d. Dec. 29, 1845, and 1.\fary Barbara his wife; dining-room is a noble apartment with carved wainscot. and another at the east end of the aisle, erected by the an ornamental ceiling and a frieze adorned with the em· late Mrs. Lavinia (Fairfax) Barnes, of Gilling Castle, to blazoned shields of the leading Yorkshire families in the various members of the Fairfax family from 1570 to year rs85; the flooring is of polished oak, and there are 1839; and near this stands a large altar tomb with re three beautiful stained windows displaying the arms of cumbent effigies of a knight between his two wives; the the Fairfax., Stapylton and other families: from the knightly figure, placed on a raised stage, represents Sir eastern terrace a very fine view is obtained across the' Nicholas Fairfax, of Walton and Gilling, sheriff of Yorks valley; on the south side are terrace gardens beautifully in 1532, 1545 and 1561, who died in 1SJO; and the others, laid out; the grounds and park cover an area of about his wives Jane (Palmes) and Alice (Harrington): in the 40 acres : the approach from the south lodge is thickly south wall of the aisle below a cusped and crocketed oge• wooded for about r! miles and a stately 11venue of beech arch. adorned at either end with a shield of the arms o· •rees (nearly a mile long) leads to the entrance. W. S. Etton, is a coffin. slab bearing a floriated cross, the tomh Hunter esq. is lord of the manor and owner of all the of one of the Ettons, who were sometime lords ,,f Gilling. land. The soil is generally of a sandy nature; subsoil, but on the failure of male heirs the property, by an clay ; the high parts principally limestone. The chisf agreement m~tde in 1349, descended to the Fairfaxe~ crops grown are turnips, potatoes, seeds, oats and barley. through the marriage, in the 14th century, of Thomas The area of the township is 2,o66 acres of land and 6 of Fairfa.x with Eliubeth, llaughter and co-heiress of 811' water; rateable value, £2>3.60; the population in 1grr Yvon de Etton: there are two other coffin slabs in the was 208 in the township and 402 in the ecclesiastical church, one being only a fragment: in the same aisle i~ parish of East Gilling. a tablet inscribed to Harriet (Fairfax), wife of Francis CA. WTON is a township, distant from Gilling and Cholmeley, of Brandsby Hall, d. Aug. 5, 1855; and to Hovingham stations 2 miles east and west respectively. Froncis Cholmeley, d. Aug. 17, I85o: .the east window if There are several small charities, amounting in all to a memorial to the Rev.