page_title: Church of St Mary the Virgin, Gamlingay
section_title: Graffiti
hierarchical_section_title: Church of St Mary the Virgin, Gamlingay / Graffiti
caption_attribution_description: English: The 18th-century polychromatic wall monument to Ralph and Elizabeth Lane in the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Gamlingay in Cambridgeshire
context_page_description: The Church of St Mary the Virgin is the parish church for the village of Gamlingay in Cambridgeshire and is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin. Gamlingay is part of the ecclesiastical parish of Gamlingay with Hatley St George and East Hatley. The church is mainly 13th-century with extensive rebuilding in the 14th and 15th centuries. It has been a Grade I listed building since 1967 and comes under the St Neots Deanery in the Diocese of Ely. Nikolaus Pevsner in 1954 described the church as "... the most impressive church in this part of the county."
context_section_description: The church has a great deal of graffiti from various eras. On the first pier of the North arcade in a small 15th-century hand is scratched 'hic est sedes Margarete Tayl . . d' (possibly done by Margaret, wife of Walter Taylard who rebuilt the adjoining North chapel). On the third pier of the North arcade can be found a possibly medieval drawing of three small houses perhaps along a street. On the second pier of the South arcade in bold characters is scratched in a late medieval hand 'mors cõparat/umbre que/semper/sequitur/corpus'. On the North splay of the West window of the tower in a bold 16th-century hand can be found 'Th[om]as [?Jek]yll Clar[ke] of Ga[m]ly[n]gaye'.
caption: The polychromatic wall monument to Ralph (1732) and Elizabeth Lane (1754)
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