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WARMINGTON 



descended separately. In 1708 Lewis, lord Rocking- 

 ham (son of Edward) was in possession,^* and in 

 1735 his grandson Lewis, earl of Rockingham.'"' 

 On his death in 17.^5 his brother Thomas (d. 1 746) 

 succeeded and left his estates to a kinsman, Lewis 

 Monson (afterwards Watson), created baron Sondes in 

 1760, who held Papley in 1751.^*' The same family''' 

 were in possession in 1785^'' and 1818.*^ Afterwards 

 Papley went to the FitzW'illiam family, one of whom 

 had married Anne, sister and coheir of Charles, 2nd 

 marquis of Rockingham, heir male of the Edward, 

 lord Rockingham of 1668. It was owned in 1864 



\V*rsos, tarl of Rock- 

 ingham Argent a ihev- 

 iron azure engrailed 

 benseen three martleti 

 labU toitb three ires- 

 ceitti ttr on the cheveron. 



FiriwiLLiAM. /.ozengy 

 urgent and gules. 



by the Hon. George Wentworth-FitzWilliam, younger 

 son of Charles, 5th earl FitzW'illiam, whose son, 

 George Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam, is the 

 present owner. 



The church of ST. MART-IHE- 

 CIIURCH VIRGIN consists of chancel, 42 ft. 6 in. 



by 19 ft., clearstoricd nave of five bays, 

 73 ft. 6 in. by 15 ft. 6 in., north and south aisles each 

 13 ft. 6 in. wide, north and south porches, and west 

 tower 13 ft. 6 in. square, surmounted by a broach 

 spire. The width across the nave and aisles is 

 47 ft. 9 in. All these measurements are internal. 

 An organ chamber was added in 1893 in the angle of 

 the chancel and south aisle. 



The church is built of Barnack ragstone, plastered 

 internally, and has plain parapets throughout. The 

 chancel is covered with grey slates, the rest of the 

 roof-i being leaded. With the exception of the nave 

 arcades and certain minor alterations named below, 

 the building is all of 13th century date, a very beauti- 

 ful example of the work of that period, the plan of 

 which has remained practically unaltered. Shortly 

 before 1850 the interior was partially restored, 

 numerous coats of whitewash and a west gallery 

 being then removed^'' : a more extensive and careful 

 restoration of the whole building was carried out in 

 1876. 



The nave arcades belong to an earlier building and 

 date from c. 1 180-90, at which time aisles were prob- 

 bably first added to a 12th century church. The tall 

 and slender columns are octagonal on the north side 

 and on the south cylindrical in section, with responds 

 to correspond. The bases rest on plinths, probably 



fragments of the walls of tlie earlier cliurch, and have 

 good water mouldings. The capitals, which on both 

 sides have octagonal abaci, differ considerably. The 

 eastern respond and the two eastern columns on the 

 north side, and the western respond and eastern column 

 on the south side have scallopped capitals. The 

 third column and west respond on tiic north and the 

 second and third columns on the south have water- 

 leaf foliage, the northern column and respond having 

 volutes in addition. The western column on the 

 north side has well-developed crocketed foliage, 

 while the western column and eastern respond on the 

 soutii have plain early gothic mouldings, the respond 

 having also an extra band of moulding in the base. 

 Tiic arches are high and pointed with small hood- 

 moulds and consist of two orders of square outline 

 with I.ecled edge-rolls and broad flat sofTits. 



About the middle of the 13th century the original 

 chancel was lengthened and rebuilt, the aisles were 

 rebuilt and widened, a clearstory was added to the 

 nave, and the tower, spire and porches were erected. 

 The south aisle seems to have been set out first, 

 but the whole of the work was planned with strict 

 regard to the spacing of the existing arcades of the 

 nave. The south doorway, covered by a magnificent 

 vaulted porch, is in the middle of the length of the 

 wall, with two three-light windows on each side, and 

 the north door is directly opposite in the middle bay 

 of the aisle, covered by a vaulted but less lofty porch. 



In the 14th century new buttresses were added to 

 the aisle walls, and the east wall of the chancel seems 

 to have been rebuilt in the 15th century with a window 

 of poor design, and other windows were inserted in 

 the south wall. New buttresses were also added to 

 the chancel, a three-light window inserted in the 

 west wall of the south aisle, and a stair-turret, giving 

 access to the roof, made at the north-west angle of 

 the north aisle. 



The chancel is of three bays and retains two 

 original windows on the north side, each of two-lights 

 divided by a slender mullion and with a cusped 

 quatrcfoil in tlie head. Their hoods are continued 

 as a string along the upper part of the wall inside 

 and out, and the windows are extremely plain in 

 detail. Below the sills is another string, continued 

 round *he whole chancel and raised to form a hood 

 to the round-headed doorway of a former sacristy 

 and to the pointed priest's doorway in the south 

 wall. Both these doorways are now blocked. The 

 east window is four-centered and of five cinquefoiled 

 lights without tracery. The windows on the south 

 side are of similar type, the first of two and the others 

 of three lights, and at the west end of the wall a 

 modern arch opens to the organ chamber, in which 

 the displaced window has been re-used. No traces 

 are visible in the chancel of either piscina or sedilia, 

 but at the east end of the north wall is a rectangular 

 aumbry, and on each side of the east window is a 

 13th century image bracket, that at the north end 

 elaborately carved but in a mutilated state, the other 

 moulded. A stone bench remains along the lower 



** Recov. R. Eait., 7 .\nnc. 



«• Ibid. nil. 9 Ceo. II. 



•• Ibid. Eait. 24 Geo. II. 



" Lewii lord Sondet, d. 1765 — 1. 

 Lewii Thomas, d. 1806 — t. Lewii 

 Richard, d. 1836. The Rockingham 

 eitatei then went to hi: youngest brother, 



Richard Watson, who d. 1852, leaving a 

 •on and heir, Wentworth, born 1848. 



»■ Recov. R. Mich. 26 Geo. III. 



" Ibid. Trm. 58 Geo. III. 



" W. Caveler, Ar<h. llluslralicitt of 

 h'armington Church (1850), p. 9. The 

 drawings are from sketches made in 1847. 



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The plates, eighteen in number, include 

 elevations, sections and details. The 

 restoration of the chancel in 1876 was 

 carried out under the direction of Ben- 

 jamin Fcrrcy and that of the nave and 

 the rest of the church by Sir Gilbert 

 Scott, 



