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internally is a crocketed ogee niche of 14th century 

 date, which with the window formed a teredos to the 

 aisle altar. In the south wall, in the usual position, 

 is a plain pointed piscina with cusped bowl, and above 

 it a small round headed opening with sloping sill, 

 which in spite of its heiglii above the ground seems 

 to have been a lowside window.'' The two 14th 

 century windows in the south wall are square-headed 

 of two trefoiled lights, and there is reason to believe 

 that the wall was rebuilt when they were erected.^' 

 The pointed west window of this aisle is 

 c. 1280 of two elongated trefoiled lights ••■-j^-.=vr 

 with moulded jambs. 



The south doorway is a very good ex- 

 ample of 13th century work, of two moulded 

 orders, the outer ornamented with dog- 

 tooth, on double jamb shafts with moulded 

 capitals and bases, the inner shafts banded 

 at mid-height. The porch has a wide 

 gable with plain coping, stone slated roof, 

 and pointed outer arch of two hollow 

 chamfered orders, and large nail-head hood- 

 mould with mask terminations, on shafted 

 jambs with moulded capitals.** There is 

 a sundial in the gable. 



The north doorway is equally good 14th 

 century work, of two moulded orders, on 

 shafted jambs, the capitals carved with oak 

 leaves on either side of a human head,** 

 and the windows in the north wall are all 

 pointed and of two trefoiled lights. That 

 formerly at the east end of the aisle is 

 now in the north wall of the organ cham- 

 ber ; the west window is of earlier type, 

 of two plain lights with quatrefoil in the 

 head. At the east end of the aisle, origin- 

 ally below the window, is a 14th century 

 reredos consisting of three crocketed ogee 

 trefoiled arches, the middle one wider than 

 the others, with a band of quatrefoils and 

 heads above,** and on the east respond 

 of the arcade adjoining, at a height of 

 34 inches from the floor, a small projecting trefoil 

 headed niche. 



The tower is of three stages with moulded plinth 

 and projecting vice in the south-east angle, but is 

 without buttresses. The upper stage has a slight 

 setback, and the bell-chamber windows are of two 

 trefoiled lights with quatrefoil above, mid-shafts, 

 and moulded jambs, the arches richly ornamented 

 with dog-tooth and flowers in the outer order. The 

 spire has plain angles and three sets of lights on each 

 of its cardinal faces. The west doorway is of two 

 moulded orders on shafted jambs with moulded 

 capitals and bases, and above it is a window of two 

 trefoiled lights. In the middle stage on the south 

 side is a circular moulded opening enriched with 

 dog-tooth and flower ornament. The tower arch is 

 of three chamfered orders dying into the wall. 



BARNWELL 

 ST. ANDREW 



The font is of early 14th century date, and has a 

 richly ornamented bowl with cusped and crocketed 

 niches on seven sides, tlic west face being blank. 



The oak pulpit is of Elizabethan, or early 17th 

 century date, with arcaded p.incls ; it stands on a 

 modern stone base. The otiier fittings are modern. 



The monument to Nicholas Latham (d. 1620), 

 founder of the hospitals at Barnwell and Oundle, after 

 removal from the chancel to the chapel in 1873, was 

 re-erected on the north wall of the chancel about 







Barnwell St. Andrew : The South Porch 



1907. It is coloured and bears the bust of Latham, 

 who is described as ' parson of this church only the 

 space of 51 years.' On the south wall is a brass plate 

 to John Orton, ' first warden of Parson Latham's 

 hospital,' who died in 1607 ' in the yeare of his age 

 loi,' and another with Latin inscription, formerly 

 in All Saints' Church, to the memory of Christopher 

 Freeman {i. 1610), who is depicted kneeling with 

 his wife and eight children at an altar.^* In the south 

 aisle is a floor slab to John and Robert Carter, who 

 died in September and November 1698, and a painted 

 board in the north aisle commemorates Elizabeth, 

 daughter of William Worthington, rector ; she died 

 in 1665. 



There is some old glass in one of the south windows 

 of the chancel and in a window in the belfry.*' 



There are two bells in the tower, the first medieval, 



" C. A. Markham in Ai%oc. Arch. Soc. 

 Rfpi. xxix. The sill is 5 ft. 5 in. above 

 the floor, at the ume level as that of the 

 adjacent window. 



•« There is no string in the east wall of 

 the aisle below the 13th century lancet, 

 but a 14th century string runs the length 

 of the south wall at sill level between the 

 end buttresses. 



•» The bases are hidden, and the jambs 

 lean outwards. 



•* On one side the leaves issue from the 

 mouth. 



•' The wall was pierced through the 

 arches when the organ-chamber was 

 built. 



" The bnss is figured in Franklin 

 Hudson, Brasiei of Nortbantt : * the man 



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and woman kneel one on each side of an 

 aitar . . . behind the man arc the effigici 

 of four sons and behind the woman are 

 four daughters, all kneeling.' 



*' Bridges records the ' portraits of 

 three persons in episcopal habits ' in the 

 upper south window of the chancel, op cit. 

 ", 393- 



