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mill here in 1322.** The windmill was still standing 

 about thirty years Liter but only the site of the manor 

 remained.*' John de Ravensholme received a grant 

 of a weekly market on Friday and a fair every year on 

 St. Luke's day, in ijig.*" 



The church of ALL SAINTS consisted 

 CHURCH of chancel, nave, north and south aisles, 

 and tower with broach spire on the 

 south side forming a porch. The east end of the 

 south aisle was widened out to form the Montagu 

 chapel, the south wall of which was in line with the 

 tower. All the roofs were leaded. The whole of 

 the building, with the exception of the chancel, was 

 pulled down about 1825. From the evidence pre- 

 served*' it seems to have been of 1 3th and 14th century 

 date, the tower and spire being of the latter period, 

 and very good examples of a well-known local type. 

 The chancel was left standing as the burial place of 

 the Montagus, Earls of Sandwich, and contains 

 many mural monuments to members of the family. 

 It was restored in 1894, but the vault had been closed 

 ten years earlier. 



The chancel now stands isolated in the middle of a 

 field. It is built of rubble and has plain parapets 

 and a low-pitched roof. Internally it measures 29 ft. 

 in length by 1 7 ft. 6 in. in width, and is of 1 3th-century 

 date. There are no buttresses, but some portion of 

 the walling north and south of the chancel arch has 

 been left standing, the arch itself, which is of two 

 chamfered orders on half-round responds with octa- 

 gonal moulded capitals, being blocked by a modern 

 wall in which a doorway is inserted. At the west end 

 of the north wall is a small lancet low-side window, 

 now blocked and covered on the inside, and there is a 

 blocked square-headed two-light window of 14th- 

 century date at the west end of the south wall. The 

 five-light east window is a 15th-century insertion, as 

 are also a two-light transomcd window on the north 

 and one of three lights on the south side. Internally 

 the walls are plastered, but the east end was panelled 

 in oak in the early part of the 1 8th century by the 

 Duke of Montagu,'^ the panelling covering the lower 

 part of the window. 



The font is ancient and consists of a plain octagonal- 

 to-square bowl standing on four short pillars. 



The most interesting of the monuments is that to 

 Henry Montagu, infant son of Sir Sidney Montagu, 

 who was drowned 28 .4pril 1625 at the age of 3. He 

 is figured under a curious tapering alabaster canopy 

 and is described as ' a wittie and hopeful child tender 

 and deare in ye sight of his parents and much lamented 



BARNWELL 

 ALL SAINTS 



by his friends. "** There are also memorials to Dame 

 Lettice Montagu (d. 1611), Thomas Dillingham, 

 rector (d. 1704), Mrs. Dorothy Creed (d. 1714), 

 Rev. Matthew Hunt (d. 1 729), William Dillingham, 

 gent. (d. 1753), and Ann, wife of William Ord (d. 

 1808). In the floor are armorial slabs, with brass 

 inscriptions, to the 4th and 5th Earls of Sandwich 

 (1792, 1814), and a brass plate on the wall records the 

 names of all the Montagus buried here from 1622 to 

 l862.«' 



High up on the south wall are two iron brackets, 

 one designed to support a flag staff, and the other a 

 long spike to hold a helmet. The helmet is hammered 

 out of sheet iron and has a wooden crest of Montagu 

 — a gritlin's head couped and collared with a crown, 

 between two expanded wings ;'•'' the flagstaff is lost, 

 and a sword is now suspended from its bracket. 



The four bells were sold when the church was taken 

 down ; no record of them appears to have been 

 kept.** 



The registers are now at Barnwell St. Andrew ; 

 before 1812 they are as follows : (i) baptisms and 

 burials 1695-1812, marriages 1705-1753 ; (ii) mar- 

 riages 1 754-1 81 2. A large number of briefs is recorded 

 1707-43. 



The church of ALL SAINTS, 

 ADFOfVSON which has been under this dedica- 

 tion since 1260,*' belonged to the 

 king's fee until Henry I gave it, it is said, about the 

 year 1 120,** to the Priory of St. Neots, upon Michael 

 its rector, son and successor of the .\rchdeacon Nigel, 

 rector under William II and Henry I, taking the habit 

 of a monk.*' The priory was confirmed in its pos- 

 session by Alexander Bishop of Lincoln in 1 140, and 

 by Hugh Bishop of Lincoln about seventy years 

 later.'" A pension of ^3 a year, payable from this 

 church to the Prior of St. Neots, was disputed by 

 Robert the parson in 1232" but was still due in 1291.'^ 

 During the 14th century the church was several times 

 in the king's gift, the temporalities of the alien Priory 

 of St. Neots being in his hands on account of the war 

 with France" and a grant of the advowson was 

 made by Edward III to John de Ravensholme in 

 1345.'" In 1496 Roger Thorpe included the church 

 in his sale of the manor.'* A later lord of the manor, 

 George Kirkham, was seised of the advowson of 

 Barnwell All Saints at his death in 1528,'* holding 

 it by grant of next presentation from the prior, 

 who afterwards made similar grants to John Lord 

 Mordaunt and Sir Edward Montagu." Lord Mor- 

 daunt presented to the church in 1554'* and the ad- 



•' Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Edw. II, file 70, 

 no. 7. 



" Ibid. 27 Edw. in, file 121, no. 12. 



•0 Chart. R. 23 Edw. Ill (136), m. i. 



•* There is a drawing (undated) of the 

 church from the louth-east by Edward 

 Blore in Baker'i Htttory of Nortbanti 

 (at end of vol.). Bridget gives the length 

 of nave and chancel as 77 ft. and width 

 across the aisles 36 ft. 6 in. : Hist, oj 

 Nortbanti. ii, 214. In 1321 an indulgence 

 for the fabric of the church of Barnwell 

 All Saints was granted (Line Epis. Reg. 

 Memo. Burghersh, f. 22). 



•" Bridges, Htit. of Nortbanti. ii, 214. 



*• The monument was erected in August 

 1626. It is fully described by Bridges, 

 op. cit. ii, 216. In a cupboard in the 

 panelling on the south tide of the altar is 



preserved a parchment recording the life 

 and death of this infant. Another 

 panel opens to disclose a piscina. 



" They include the 2nd Earl of Sand- 

 wich (d. 1688), and his four successors, the 

 3rd (d. 1729), 4th (d. 1792), 5th (d. 1814), 

 and 6th (d. 18 18) Earls. The burial vault 

 is below the chancel, the floor of which 

 is paved with black and white marble. 



" The wings are gone. For full de- 

 scription see C. A. Markham in An. Ar^b. 

 Soc. Reports, xxxvi, 78. 



" North, Cb. Bells of Northants. 190. 

 Not only the bells, but the material of the 

 fabric and interior fittings were sold at 

 auction, and the registers were even offered, 

 but being claimed by the churchwardens 

 were saved : MS. Notes by Thos. H. 

 Wright (1909). 



•' Rot. Ric. Gravtsend (Cant, and York 

 Soc), pt. ii, 100. 



" Gorham, Hist. St. Neots, ii, p. 

 cxiviii. 



•• Ibid. Cott. MSS. Faust. A 4, fol. 46. 



'" Gorham, op. cit. ii, pp. xii, xiii ; 

 Cott. MSS. Faust. A 4, fol. 41, 41^. 



" Gorham, op. cit. ii, p. xv. 



''^ Pope Nicb. Tax (Rec. Com.) 39*. 



"Ca/. Pat. 1338-4°, P- 3'8i 1354-58. 

 PP- 249>273i 1385-89, P- 3°'- 



'« Pat. R. 19 Edw. Ill, pt. I (213), m. 22. 



" Feet of F. Northants. case 179, 

 file 97, no. 39. 



'• Chan. Warr. file 608, no. 161 ; 

 Excheq. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), dcxcii, no. 13. 



" Gorham, op. cit. ii, Ixxii ; Bridges, 

 op. cit. ii, 215. 



'• Ibid. 



