A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



St. Andrew (q.v.). Maurice Daundeljii was returned 

 in the 1 2th centur>- Northamptonshire Survey. 



In 1357 John Daundelyn the elder, of Cranford, sold 

 to Adam Franceys, citizen of London, and Henry 

 Pyel, clerk, lands, rents, etc., in Cranford,^ a yearly 

 rent of 6 barbed arrows, which he used to receive of 

 Walter Daundelyn, John Daundelyn, and Thomas 

 Daundelyn of Little Addington, of their lands in 

 Little Addington, of the fee of the Earl of Glou- 

 cester, and a rent of a pair of gloves from the lands of 

 John Pyel in Great and Little Addington. Walter, 

 John and Thomas Daundelyn, of Little Addington, 

 were witnesses to this grant. It was possibly this 

 John Daundelyn of Little Addington who was 

 assaulted and maimed at Higham Ferrars in I3S4-^' 

 When the Daundelyns ceased to hold in Addington 

 does not appear. But their property is evidently 

 represented by a manor of Little Addington, of which 

 Barnabas Wykyrley or Wykeley or Weekly made a 

 conveyance in 1553 to Giles Wykeley^^ (or Weekly), 



ScA'.F OF Feet 

 Plan of Little Addington Church 



v/ho settled it in 1554^ on his wife Eleanor. Accord- 

 ing to Bridges, Eleanor was the daughter of Thomas 

 Sawyer of Raunds, and Giles died in 1558 9 se'sed of 

 the manor of Addington Parva, held of the Crown as 

 of the honour of Gloucester, leaving a son John as his 

 heir.** A Richard Weekly appears as a tenant in the 

 Sulby manor (q.v.) in 1597, and in 1627 Richard 

 Weekly died at Little Addington seised of a messuage 

 and lands held of F^dward Lord Montagu as of his 

 hundred of Huxloc ; of one and a half virgates of land 

 held of the king in chief by knight service i^ and of a 

 cottage held of Edward Lord Montagu as of the 

 honour of Gloucester. By his will, dated 3 June 1626, 

 he bequeathed this cottage to his son Richard, but 

 his heir was his son Henry .^ 



The church of ST. MART stands 



CHURCH on high ground above the road, and 



consists of chancel 20 ft. by 15 ft., 



with modern vestry and organ chamber on the 



north side, clearstoried nave of three bays 41 ft. 

 by 14 ft. 3 in., north and south aisles each 

 about II ft. wide,^' north and south porches, and 

 engaged west tower 11 ft. by 8 ft. 9 in., all these 

 measurements being internal. The tower is sur- 

 mounted by a short spire. The church is built on 

 ground falling sharply from south to north, so that 

 while the level of the south porch is two steps above 

 that of the nave, the north porch is five steps below 

 it. There is also a westward slope. 



The church is built of rubble, plastered internally, 

 and the chancel has a low, modern slated roof. The 

 other roofs are leaded, with plain parapets to the 

 clearstory and north aisle ; the lead overhangs on the 

 south aisle. The greater part of the building belongs 

 to the last quarter of the 13th century, covering per- 

 haps the period c. 1 280-1 300, the north arcade and 

 two windows at the west end of the north aisle being 

 rather earlier in character than the rest of the work, 

 though the whole appears to have been more or less 

 continuous. The tower was 

 built towards the end of the 

 14th century, when the clear- 

 story and south porch were 

 added and the chancel altered. 

 The east end of the north 

 aisle was rebuilt in the 15th 

 century, and the date 1705 

 on a stone below the parapet 

 apparently records some re- 

 construction of the north wall 

 at that time. The church was 

 restored and reseated in 1857, 

 and there was a more exten- 

 sive restoration in 1882-3, 

 I280~ 1300 when the vestry was added. 



I360~70 The chancel has a small 



1512 Century 14th century east window of 



EH Subsequent »lV1oa two trefoiied lights with 



20 30 40 K3 quatrefoil in the head, and a 



diagonal buttress at the north- 

 east angle. If the window is 

 in its original position it 

 seems likely that the north 

 rebuilt at this period, and 

 In the south wall is 



and east walls were 

 possibly the chancel shortened, 

 a 13th century priest's doorway of a single chamfered 

 order, and west of it a low-side window, the lower 

 part of which (now blocked) is contemporary with the 

 doorway, the head being of 14th century date. There 

 are remains of a destroyed window east of the doorway. 

 The chancel is open its full width to the nave by a late 

 13th century arch of two chamfered orders, the inner- 

 most resting on moulded corbels supported by heads. 

 The nave arcades have excellently moulded arches 

 and piers composed of clusters of four sli.ifls, with 

 arriscd projections in the hollows between. In the 

 later south arcade these projections are enlarged 

 and treated as additional shafts, but have no capitals. 

 The responds correspond with the piers, except at the 

 east end on the south side, where the arch springs 

 from a moulded corbel carved on the underside with 

 foliage. 



•• Cat. Clou, 1354-60, p. 428. 

 •' Cal. Pat. 1354-8, p. 87 i ibid. n^iM, 

 p. .87. 



•• Fttt ol F. Northanti. Eait. 7 Ed. VI. 



" Ibid. Mich. 1 Phil, and Mary. 

 •* llin. Noribanli. ii, 207 ; let alio 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr. ii), cxjiv, 217. 

 •* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Str. ii), dcizviii,64. 



162 



•• Ibid. 



" The north .liilo it 10 ft. q in. wide at 

 icicait end, and the inuth aide 11 ft. The 

 width acroti n.ivc and aiilca i> 41 ft. 



