WILLYBROOK HUNDRED 



with dogtooth, all the masonry being modern, and 

 there are modern lancets in the north and south walls, 

 with segmental rear arches. 



The chancel arch is of two chamfered orders with 

 half-octagonal responds and moulded capitals and 

 bases. It belongs to the early 14th century, taking 

 the place of a narrower arch. 



The north arcade of the nave is of three bays, the 

 first two having round arches of two orders with a roll 

 on the inner order and a lozenge pattern on the 

 outer towards the nave, the orders towards the aisles 

 being plain. The capitals are scalloped and the cen- 

 tral pillar round, the responds having half-round shafts 

 with small nook-shafts on the south side. The third 

 bay of the arcade has a 13th-century round arch, not 

 continuous with the other two, and having moulded 

 capitals. 



The south arcade has two b.iys belonging to the end 

 of the I 2th century, and a third at the west coeval with 

 that on the north side and of like design. The 

 arches of the south arcade are higher than those in 

 the north, and the two east bays have round arches of 

 two chamfered orders, with transitional foliage on the 

 capitals. 



The west window of the nave is a single lancet, 

 tall and wide, which has been modernized. The 

 nave clearstory has three windows a-side, each of two 

 trefoiled lights under a square head, unevenly spaced, 

 with a wide gap between the middle and western 

 windows, on the line of the former west end of 

 the nave. It is possible that they take the place 

 of earlier windows in the same positions, the two 

 eastern of which on both sides were made before 

 the western extension, while the western windows 

 were set out in the nev/ work without reference 

 to the others. 



The north aisle has a widely-splayed east window, 

 of two narrow lights with a quatrefoil in the head. 

 In the north wall are two square-headed windows of 

 three trefoiled lights, probably 16th-century work. 

 The blocked north doorway has a shouldered arch 

 with mask corbels, and a square internal head, and is 

 probably coeval with the aisle. 



The south aisle has a trefoiled piscina at the east, 

 and near it a square-headed window of four trefoiled 

 lights, ^.1330. The south doorway is of two 

 moulded orders with jamb-shafts, and capitals with 

 transitional foliage and square abaci, of the same date 

 as the south arcade. West of the doorway is a square- 

 headed window of three trefoiled lights, with an em- 

 battled transom, and in the south-west angle is an 

 ogee-headed doorway, now built up, perhaps leading 

 to a vice at the angle of the aisle, which has disap- 

 peared. Both window and doorway are of the 14th 

 centur)', probably of the date of the rebuilding of the 

 aisle. 



The south porch is 13 ft. 6 in. long by 8 ft. 2 in. 

 wide, with stone seats on the east and west. In its 

 east wall is a small window of two trefoiled lights 

 worked in one stone, and in the west wall a square- 

 headed loop. The outer arch is of two chamfered 

 orders with half-octagonal responds and moulded 

 capitals. 



The tower opens to the chancel with a pointed 

 arch of two orders with clustered shafts and moulded 

 capitals, with nailhead ornament on that of the west 

 respond. To the south aisle it opens with a similar 

 arch, but of three orders. The ground st.age of the 

 tower has contained an altar, a trefoiled piscina of the 



DUDDINGTON 



1 3th century remaining in its south wall. In the east 

 and south walls are round-headed lights, that in the 

 south wall, which seems to be an insertion, having 

 been widened and altered in the head, and below it 

 to the west is a plain round-headed doorway. In the 

 second stage there is a lancet window on the south 

 side, with nailhead on the label. The tower has 

 pairs of shallow buttresses at the angles, and sets back 

 on the first and second stages. The third or belfry 

 stage is of somewhat later date than the work below 

 it, and there seems to have been an interval of some 

 twenty years between the two. Each of the four 

 belfry windows is of two lights divided by a shaft, 

 under a pointed head, which has a roll on its outer 

 order on the east and south faces of the belfry, 

 being those which would be seen by anyone coming 

 by the main approach to the church, while those 

 on the north and west faces are left plain. The 

 stone spire is octagonal, with two tiers of spire- 

 lights, each of two lancet openings divided by a 

 shaft under a gabled head. The tympana of the 

 gables are plain, except in the case of the lower 

 spirelight on the south side, which contains a 

 pierced quatrefoil. 



The chancel has a good modern roof of 14th-cen- 

 tury style with arched braces carved with ball flowers 

 and resting on moulded stone corbels. The nave 

 roof is plain, as are those of the aisles, some old 

 timbers remaining in the north aisle. The south 

 door is probably as old as the doorway, made of 

 oak boards braced together and hung with heavy 

 wrought-iron strap hinges ornamented with a fish- 

 bone pattern. 



Under the tower is a 17th-century communion 

 table, with rows of turned balusters on three sides. 

 It is 3 ft. by 3 ft. 9 in. and looks as if it had stood 

 with one narrow end against the east wall, as there 

 are no balusters in that portion. They may, how- 

 ever, have been removed. The seating is modern 

 save for a few 17th-century bench-ends. 



There are some remains of a red and black foliage 

 pattern painted on the south face of the north-west 

 respond of the nave. 



The plate consists of a small silver cup and cover 

 paten of 1605, a second cup and paten of modern 

 date, a plate of 1845, and a flagon of 1865. 



There is one bell, from the Newcorabes' foundry at 

 Leicester, inscribed: no menn o m n.' 



The first book of the register contains baptisms 

 from 1733 to 1 8 1 2 and burials from 1735 to 1 8 1 2 ; 

 the second, marriages from 1754 to 1812. There is 

 a clerk's book which contains marriages from 1737 to 

 1754, ^"'i ^1^° baptisms from 1733 to 1 8 10, and 

 burials from 1737 to 1808. 



William Jackson by will, dated 

 CHJRITIES 12 November, 1667, bequeathed 

 a capital sum of ^^50 for building a 

 school, and a rent-charge of ^10 per annum on his 

 farm at Helpston for maintenance of a school- 

 master to teach twelve poor children. 



James Marsh Weldon's Charity — subject to £1 for 

 repair of gravestones in the chancel of the church — 

 was founded by will, proved at London, 30 Januar)', 

 1851, and consists of the dividends of /'169 3/. i iJ. 

 consols, held by the official trustees, distributed to 

 the poor in bread. 



^ Possibly Nomcn omen, but meaningless inscriptions .ire 

 common on bells at this date, c. 1600. 



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