Gisleham
| Gisleham | |
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 Holy Trinity, Gisleham |
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 Gisleham
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| Gisleham shown within Suffolk | |
| Population | 778 (2011) |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Lowestoft |
| Postcode district | NR33 7 |
| Police | Suffolk |
| Fire | Suffolk |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| EU Parliament | East of England |
Gisleham is a small village and civil parish located on the western edge of Lowestoft in the English county of Suffolk. It is situated between Carlton Colville and Kessingland. The place name of Gisleham derives from the Old English gysla and ham, meaning "Gysla's Village".
In the 1870s, Gisleham was described as:
a parish in Mutford district, Suffolk; near the coast, 3 miles S of Mutford railway station, and 4½ SW by S of Lowestoft. Post town, Mutford-Bridge, under Lowestoft. Acres, 1, 344. Real property, £2, 677. Pop., 267. Houses, 55. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £331.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient, but very good; has a round tower, surmounted by a hexagonal steeple; and contains an octagonal later English font, and remains of a screen.
Gisleham church, Holy Trinity, is one of 38 existing round-tower churches in Suffolk. The church has a late Anglo-Saxon or early Norman round base topped with a 15th-century octagonal brick crown. The medieval church was restored in 1861, 1887 and the chancel in 1902 to 1908. Holy Trinity has Grade I status.
Within the civil parish of Gisleham is a moated site called Gisleham Manor. The manor dates back to the 13th-century. A house once existed that was enclosed within the moats. It is very like to have been a fortified manor house. The house and associated buildings of the manor no longer exist.
However, the outer moat survived as a buried feature of the manor. It is thought to have once been infilled. Information regarding the construction and occupation of the moated site is of great importance as it retains archaeological information from the medieval and post-medieval periods. The Manor is now a scheduled monument protected by law under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.
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