HUXLOE HUNDRED great addington 



and infringes upon an earlier bracket in the east wall : 

 it is lighted on this side by a small double opening. 

 The upper doorway remains, but the screen is 

 gone. 



The nave arcades are plain late 13th-century work. 

 The piers are octagonal, with slender half-octagon 

 responds ; but the eastern arch of the north arcade 

 springs from a corbel ; and the pier on its west side 

 is formed by a cluster of four shafts. The arches are 

 very wide, and much ironstone is used in them. 



Both aisles underwent some alteration after their 

 original construction, and the outer wall of tlie north 

 aisle, which is now continuous with that of the north 

 chapel, has been practically rebuilt. Tlicre is a plain 

 round-headed north doorway. Tlie windows of the 

 north aisle are 14th-century two-light openings with 

 flat heads : the west window is rather later. In each 

 case, the tracery has been considerably renewed. 



The south aisle was partly rebuilt in the 14th 

 century and was probably repaired in the 15th century, 

 to which date belong the east and west windows, both 

 of three lights. The two windows in the south 

 wall are each of two lights : the western, with a 

 round quatrefoil in the head, is contemporary with 

 the arcades : the other has ogee lights and a pointed 

 quatrefoil, and is of the early 14th century. Between 

 this window and the east wall of the aisle is a very large 

 tomb-recess, practically rebuilt. 



The south doorway is of the 14th century, with 

 mouldings on the chamfer-plane. It is covered by 

 a porch which is partly of 13th-century date. The 

 stone benches on either side stop short of the outer 

 doorway, which, as already noted, is a fine late 12th- 

 century arch. It is clear that this arch was at first 

 rebuilt in the south wall of the aisle and was covered 

 by the porch, and that, when a new doorway was made 

 in the 14th century, the porch was slightly lengthened 

 and the old arch added to its outer face. This work 

 formed part of the repair which included the east 

 part of the aisle, but was apparently not continued 

 west of the porch, where the older window was left 

 undisturbed. The porch has a plastered barrel-roof, 

 apparently of the 18th-century. 



The clearstory, consisting of two-light windows, 

 three on each side, was added in the 15th century, 

 below the high pitch of the older roof, which appears 

 above it externally. 



The tower was built towards the middle of the 

 14th century, and has diagonal buttresses and a 

 finely moulded west doorway, with filleted rolls in 

 the outer, and a sunk chamfer and wave in the inner 

 orders, and with a scroll hood-moulding. Above this 

 is a vaulted niche. In the second stage there is a 

 lozenge-shaped opening with reticulated tracery. 

 A similar lozenge is pierced in the lower stage of the 

 south wall, which is lighted in the second stage by a 

 two-light window like those of the belfry above. The 

 second stage in the north wall has a plain single light. 

 The bell-chamber windows are of two lights with 

 rather formal reticulated tracery. The carved band 

 and high parapet with cross-loops above seem to have 

 been added in the 15th century. The tower communi- 

 cates with the nave by a chamfered arch of three 

 orders. The vice is in the south-west angle. 



The font is of the 13th century, with a circular 

 bowl upon a circular stem furnished with four attached 

 shafts, the capitals of which are joined to the bowl 

 by grotesque head-shaped projections. There is a 

 good early 17th-century pulpit, and there is some old 

 glass in the heads of the north aisle windows, in addi- 

 tion to that already mentioned. 



In the chancel, upon a marble slab placed upon a 

 low stone table north of the altar, is the brass of a 

 priest in mass vestments, carrying the chalice and 

 wafer, with a scroll inscribed ' Illu fili dei miserere 

 raei.' In medallions at the corners are the emblems 

 of the four evangelists. The inscription reads : 

 ' Orate pro aia magistri Johis Bloxham primi Capellani 

 istius Cantarie bcate marie qui obiit quinto die 

 mensis decembris Anno xpi millimo quingentesimo 

 xix° cuius anirae propicietur deus amen. Henricus 

 Veer erat fundator istius cantarie.' This brass evi- 

 dently was originally in the north chapel, where the 

 effigy of the founder, as already mentioned, still 

 remains. 



There are mural tablets in the chancel to William 

 Lambe (d. 1762) and two of his sons, one of whom 

 of the same name was rector (d. 1767), and to William 

 Lambe (d. 1780). 



There is a ring of six bells, by J. Taylor and Co., 

 of Loughborough, 1899. They take the place of four 

 bells'^ which were then recast, to which a treble and 

 tenor were added. 



The plate consists of a cup of 1835 and paten 

 of 1845, both London make, and an almsdish 

 made in Birmingham in 1832, the gift of Mary 

 Tyley, wife of the Rev. James Tyley, rector, in 

 1846. There are also two plated almsdishes given 

 in 1863.M 



The registers before 1812 are as follows: (l) 

 baptisms, 1 694-1 767 ; marriages, 1692-1 754 ; burials, 

 1692-1767; (ii) baptisms, 1768-1812; burials, 

 1767-1812; (iii) marriages, 1754-1812. 



The church is referred to in a 

 ADVOWSON doubtful charter of 833 to Croyland 

 Abbey, and the advowson was held 

 by that abbey until the Dissolution,*' after which it 

 was granted with the Croyland manor to Lord Parr 

 of Horton in 1544, and in 1558 to Sir Robert Lane, 

 Kt., of Horton, and Anthony Throckmorton, of 

 Charleston. Before 1 562 the manor and advowson 

 had been separated, and in 1586 the advowson was 

 conveyed by Thomas Birte and Cresida his wife 

 to William Goodfellow and Mary his wife,'*; since 

 then it has been held by a succession of owners, some- 

 times incumbents. 



Henry Vere at his death on 22 May, 1493, left 

 directions for the endowment of a chantry of one 

 chaplain in the parish church of Great Addington, 

 to be called the Henry Vere chantry, for the souls of 

 King Henry VII and his consort Queen Elizabeth, 

 Prince Arthur and Henry, Duke of York, the said 

 Henry Vere, his parents and benefactors. On 18 Oc- 

 tober, I5CX3, licence was obtained for the alienation 

 in mortmain to the priory of St. Andrews, Northamp- 

 ton, of lands to the yearly value of 9 marks, or to 

 charge the lands of the priory in Sywell with the pay- 

 ment of 9 marks yearly to the chaplain, and to alienate 



*■ The first and lecond of the old belli 

 were by R. Taylor, St. Neots, 1807, the 

 third wai by Tobie Norrii, 1605, and the 



fourth watdated 1630. The inscriptioniare 



given in North, Cb. Belli oJNoribartis. 175. 



" Markham, Cb. Plate oj Nortbanii. i. 



•• See above, under the hittory of the 

 manor. 

 " Feet ofF.NorthantJ.Mich.zS-agElii. 



