A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



ashlar dressings, and has low-pitched roofs and plain 

 parapets. The walls inside are plastered. 



The chancel is substantially of the later part of the 

 13th century, and retains strings, angle buttresses, 

 priest's doorway, and internally a double piscina of 

 that date. The piscina has two plain pointed arches 

 set within a larger arch, the tympanum being pierced 

 with a quatrefoil. In the 14th century an east 

 window of five lights with reticulated tracery (now 

 restored) was inserted, and long two-light windows 

 with transoms in the side walls. These windows, 

 two in the south wall and one in the north, have 

 cinquefoiled lights and a quatrefoil in the head. 

 West of the piscina, below the first window, are three 

 ogee-headed sedilia of 14th century date, with 

 crocketed arches and dividing shafts with moulded 

 capitals and bases. The seats are on one level. The 

 sanctuary was panelled in oak and a reredos erected 

 in 1920 as a war memorial. 



The 14th-century tower has a battlemcntcd parapet, 

 and is of five stages marked by strings, with diagonal 

 buttresses and a vice at the north-east angle. The 

 west doonvay has a continuous series of wave 

 mouldings divided by deep casements, and over it is 

 a two-light window with modern tracery. The bell- 

 chamber windows are each of two cinquefoiled 

 lights with a quatrefoil in the head. Below the 

 parapet is a continuous row of square quatrefoiled 

 panels, and the gargoyles are set in the middle of each 

 side. The spire is without ribs, and has three sets 

 of lights on each of its cardinal faces. The tower arch 

 is of three chamfered orders, the inner carried on 

 responds with moulded capitals and bases. 



The nave is of four bays, and retains most of the 

 fittings of the period of its erection. In the west wall 

 is set a stone with the arms 

 and crest of Washington. It 

 is without inscription, but is 

 said to commemorate Sir John 

 Washington, some members of 

 whose family are buried in 

 the churchyard. The font 

 dates from 1888. 



There is a ring of eight bells, 

 cast in 1897 by John Taylor 

 and Co. of Loughborough.''^ 



The plate consists of a cup 

 and paten of 1570, and a cup, 

 paten, and flagon of 1855, 

 given by Alfred Wigan in i860. There are also a 

 pewter flagon, pewter plates and a brass alms 

 dish." 



The registers before 181 2 are as follows: (i) bap- 



l^l^tV 



WASiiiNr.TON. Argent 

 ttL'O bars itntb three 

 motets gules in the cbtef. 



tisms, marriages and burials 1560-1640; (ii) births and 

 baptisms, marriages, and burials 1653-87, with a few 

 earher notes (1641-52) on one page of births ; (iii) 

 parish clerk's paper register book 1643-87 ; (iv) parish 

 clerk's register 1688-1709; (v) baptisms and burials 

 1709-59, marriages 1709-54 ; (vi) marriages 1754-98 ; 

 (vii) parish clerk's book 1761-90; (viii) baptisms and 

 burials 1790-95 ; (ix) baptisms and burials 1796-1812, 

 marriages 1798-1812. 



In the churchyard is the head of a medieval grave 

 slab with cross patonce. 



The church of St. James '* was 

 ADVOWSON granted by Baldwin, son of Gilbert, 

 to the Abbey of Bourne in Lincoln- 

 shire, which he founded in 1138.'* The abbey held 

 the advowson until its dissolution in 1534, but from 

 1422 frequently granted away the presentation on a 

 particular occasion.'* From the Dissolution till the 

 present day the advowson has belonged to the Crown." 

 No vicarage was instituted, but the rector paid a 

 pension of 4s. a year to the abbey .'^ In 1600 Queen 

 Elizabeth granted certain tithes in Thrapston formerly 

 belonging to the abbey to the Bishop of Ely." 



Three roods of land and a fishery in the Neve were 

 given for the maintenance of a light in Thrapston 

 church, and in 1552, Edward VI granted them to 

 Sir Thomas Tresham and George Tresham.** 



Mary Allen in 1685 bequeathed £1 

 CHARITIES a year for poor widows. The sum 

 of ;{|20 which was appropriated to 

 answer this charity was applied towards building a 

 poor house, and £1 a year was formerly paid out of 

 the rates and distributed in bread. 



By his will proved at Lichfield 31st October, 1878, 

 Matthias Royce Griffin gave ^^1,000 to the trustees of 

 the Baptist Chapel at Thrapston for the poor. The 

 sum was invested in stock now represented by 

 ^^969 13/. lid. India 3^ per cent. Stock, producing 

 £33 I9-'- yearly in dividends. The income is dis- 

 tributed in kind among about 50 recipients. 



The Reynold Hogg Fund is regulated by a scheme 

 of the Charity Commissioners dated l6th April, 1924. 

 The property originally consisted of a piece of land 

 in Church Street with buildings formerly used as a 

 Protestant Dissenting Chapel comprised in an inden- 

 ture dated 6 November, 1812. The property was 

 sold in 1924 and the proceeds invested in £177 19J. ^d. 

 5 per cent. War Stock, which stock was made up to 

 ;f20O by the deacons of the Baptist Chapel who were 

 appointed trustees of the scheme. The income is 

 applied for the general purposes of the chapel. 



The sums of stock are with the Oflicial Trustees of 

 Charitable Funds. 



TITCHMARSH 



Thichemcrs, Tychcmers (xiii cent.), Tychcmersh, 

 Tichmarsh (xiv cent.), Ticiimcrsh (xvii cent.). 



The parish of Titchmarsh contains 3,988 acres, of 



which more than two-thirds are under grass. The land 

 lies between 120 ft. and 175 ft. above the ordnance 

 datum. The river Nene forms part of the western 



''They take the place of 3 ring of 

 five, ihe inicriplioni on which are given in 

 North, Cb. /fetiioj Nortbantt^^it). Theie 

 brll« were rc-cait and three new onci 

 a'lded ai a memorial of the Diamond 

 Jubilee of Queen Victoria. One of the old 

 belh wai o( 16th century date, and three 

 othcrt were dated reipcctivcly 1634, 1677, 

 and 1686. 



" Markham, Cb. Piute of Nortbitnts, 

 283- 



" Cal. Close, 1318-23, p. 328. 



" Chart. K. I Edw. Ill, m. 24, no. 

 4'- 



" Ibid. ; Rot.ll«g.d,lfellei{C»m. and 

 York Soc), i, 169; ii, iqo; iii, 2; 

 Koi. Rob. Crossttesle {Cant, and York See), 



142 



226; Epii. Reg. cit. Bridgci, op. cit. ii, 

 380. 



" P.R.O. Initit. Bk». 1628, 1631, 1662, 



1680, I70(), 171:5, 1789. 



" Pope Nub. Tax (Rcc. Com.), 39 * ; 

 I'utor. F.eeles. (Rec. Coin.), iv, 103. 



" I'at. R. 42 V.Wi. pt. 9, m. 4. 



•» Ibid. 5 Edw. VI, pt. 7. 



