HUXLOE HUNDRED little addington 



The south doorway is of two moulded orders on 

 angle shafts with moulded capitals and bases, and the 

 porch opening of two chamfered orders, the inner 

 springing from half-octagonal responds with much 

 restored moulded capitals. The plainer north door- 

 way has a continuous round and hollow moulding, 

 without hood, and tlie porch, which is lo ft. square 

 internally, is covered by a stone vault with chamfered 

 diagonal ribs. The roof space above was lighted by a 

 window in the gable, now blocked, but was never 

 properly a porch-chamber. The porch has stone 

 benches and an outer double chamfered arch of two- 

 centred segment form. 



There is a beautiful double piscina with two 

 trefoiled openings and quatrefoil over, together with 

 an aumbry in the south aisle, and a single piscina in 

 the east wall of the nortli aisle. Above the double 

 piscina is a plain stone image-bracket. The east 

 window of the south aisle consists of three uncusped 

 gradated lancets with pierced spandrels, and the 

 west window and one on either side of the doorway, 

 are of two lights with forked mullion. Another 

 window in this aisle is a 14th century insertion, of 

 three trefoiled lights with fully developed reticulated 

 tracery. In the north aisle the west window^ and 

 another in the north wall adjoining it, are each of two 

 plain lights with a cuspcd circle in the head, c. 1280 ; 

 another has a forked mullion, and two at the east end 

 are four-centred 15th-century windows of three 

 cinqucfoiled lights. The clearstory has four win- 

 dows on the south side and three on the north, all 

 square headed and of two trefoiled lights. 



The tower is inserted at the west end of the nave, 

 cutting it short by a bay, the reason being perhaps the 

 westward slope on which the church stands. The 

 tower is of three stages with moulded plinth, coupled 

 buttresses, and battlemented parapet above a band 

 of quatrefoils. The beautiful western doorway, with 

 sculptured figures in the hollow mouldings, has a 

 crocketed hood with finial and flanking pinnacles, 

 and over it is a traceried window of two lights. The 

 deeply recessed bell-chamber windows are of two 

 trefoiled lights with quatrefoil in the head except on 

 the south side, where the upper part of the window is 

 older work re-used, with a 

 trefoiled circle in the head, 

 similar to the west windows 

 of the north aisle. The spire 

 has two sets of lights. The 

 arms of Pyel (a bend between 

 two molets) occur upon the 

 upper stage of the tower on 

 the north side, and ironstone 

 is freely used with picturesque 

 effect. Internally the tower 

 opens into the nave by a lofty 

 arch of four^ continuous 

 chamferdU orders, and into the aisles by similar but 

 less lofty arches. The vice is in the south-west angle. 

 The 15th-century rood screen, with its doors, 

 remains ; it has two bays on each side of the middle 



PviL. Argent a bend 

 between two moleti sable. 



opening, but has been badly painted in brown pigment, 

 and the top is new. The oak pulpit is contemporary 

 with the screen, and has carved panels ; it stands on a 

 modern stone base. Outside the east wall of the south 

 aisle are indications of a blocked outer doorway, but 

 there is no sign of any remains of an internal stair to 

 the rood loft. The font is modern, with octagonal 

 p.inelled bowl. The seating dates from 1 857. 



At the restoration of 1883 most of the monumental 

 slabs in the chancel floor, with the Sanderson arms 

 and inscriptions, were sunk, and tiles placed over 

 them. Some brass plates, including one to John 

 Sanderson, 1672, are in the vestry. 



There are three bells, all by Hugh Watts II, of 

 Leicester. The treble is an alphabet bell dated 1610, 

 and the second and third, dated respectively 1620 and 

 1629, are inscribed ' HIS Nazarenus Rex Judeorum 

 Fili Dei miserere mei.' '"' 



The plate consists of a paten of 1853 and a cup of 

 1857, both I-ondon make.'** 

 The registers begin in 1588. 



The advowson belonged to Arnold 

 ADFOWSON de Pavilly (Papilam) in the middle of 

 the 1 2th century, who gave it to 

 Sulby Abbey.*^ The lords of the manor seem to have 

 regained possession, and in 123.). it was regranted to 

 William Abbot of Sulby by Richard de Waterville, who 

 was received into all benefits of the Abbey.*' It was 

 held by the abbey until the Dissolution, when in 1543 

 it was granted with the manor and rectory to Edward 

 Humfrey.** It was not included in the sale of the 

 manor to John Weekly, but in 1608 was in the hands 

 of Rowse Burton, John Humfrey's grandson, who 

 conveyed it to Dorothy and Eleanor Humfrey, the 

 daughters and co-heirs of John Humfrey's son 

 Edward. ■*' It was conveyed in 1621 by Richard Pickes 

 andEleanor his wife, and Henry Calthorpe and Dorothy 

 his wife, evidently Edward Humfrey's daughters, to 

 John Sanderson,** of Little Addington. In 1634 John 

 Sanderson, and his wife Cecily, and Thomas Sander- 

 son were dealing with the rectory and advowson,*' as 

 were John Sanderson and his wife Margaret and 

 Theophilus Sanderson (their son and heir) in 1 662,*' 

 and Theophilus alone in 1669.''* John Sanderson 

 died in 1672, and the death in 1683 of his son Theo- 

 philus was followed by that of John Sanderson, son 

 and heir of Theophilus, in 1687, at the age of twenty- 

 three.^" The rectory and advowson must then have 

 been held by Sanderson co-heiresses, the daughters 

 of Theophilus, one of whom, Martha wife of Thomas 

 Pemberton, was with her husband dealing with one- 

 third in 1695,5* and in 1697.^^ Elizabeth Sanderson, 

 the daughter of Theophilus, married her cousin, 

 Anthony Sanderson, of Serlby Hall, Co. Nottingham, 

 and died in 1694.^' The rectory and advowson ulti- 

 mately passed to her husband with Little Addington 

 mansion. He became vicar in 1720,'* and died in 

 1737. Harvey Sparkes and William Sanderson pre- 

 sented in 1737, William Sanderson in 1770, and 

 Thomas Sanderson in 181 3. ^^ 



The last Sanderson to hold the rectory and advow- 



•* The we»t window is wholly restored. 

 •* Three on the inner tide. 

 ♦• North, Cb. Bells of Nortbants. 176. 

 ♦' Markham, Cb. Plate of Nortbantt. 3. 

 ♦• Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vi, (ii) 904. 

 •» Feet o( F. Norcbanti. Hen. Ill, ca»e 

 172, file 27, no. 340. 



«« Pat. R. 35 Hen. VIII, pt. 16, m. 32. 



" Feet of F. Northants. Mich. 6 Ja». I. 



" Ibid. Hil. I9]as. I. 



«' Feet of F. Northants. Trin. 10 Chas.I. 



" Ibid. Hil. 12 and i3Chas. II. 



"Ibid. East. 21 Cha>. II. 



'» M.I. in church. 



" Feet of F. Northants. Trin. 7 

 Will. HI. 



'» Ibid. Hil. 9 Will, and Mary. 



" M.I. in church. 



" Information supplied by Mrs. Eliz. 

 Sander son-Etough. 



" Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.). 



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