Guy Fawkes Baptismal record & St Peter’s School
(not open to the public)

Guy Fawkes and both of his sisters were baptised in St Michael-le-Belfry Church. You can see a facsimile of Guy’s baptismal entry just inside the west entrance to the church. When his father died, Guy’s mother remarried into a catholic family with close ties to the Percy family of Northumbria (known rebels against the King of England), the Ingleby’s and the Pulleyn’s. John Pulleyn was headmaster at St Peters where, along with several of the other Gunpowder Conspirators, Guy Fawkes went to school. By coincidence, Guy inherited (from his father) the land where the present day buildings of St Peter’s school stand. The proceeds of the sale of the land allowed Guy to leave York to fight in the religious wars on the continent. To this day the school do not burn a ‘guy’ on bonfire night.