HUXLOE HUNDRED 



DENFORD 



innermost carried on moulded corbels. There is 

 no screen. 



The nave arcades spring from piers composed 

 of four attached shafts with moulded capitals, and 

 from half-octagonal responds. The arches are of 

 two chamfered orders. On the south side, the piers 

 have moulded bases, but not on the norlli. The door- 

 ways of the aisles are of the 13th century ; the northern 

 has a simple chamfer, the southern is of two chamfered 

 orders, the innermost on shafts with moulded capitals 

 and chamfered bases, the shafts being new. The 

 outer arch of the porch is of two chamfered orders 

 on imposts, with tooth ornament in the hood mould. 

 The windows of the aisles are of various dates. The 

 easternmost window in the soutli wall and the 



The tower is of two stages with massive double 

 buttresses to half its height, and a vice in the south- 

 west angle. The lower stage is of rubble, and the 

 upper or bell-chamber story of dressed stone. The 

 west doorway is a modern 13th-century restoration, 

 but the tall lancet window above is original. The 

 north and south sides of the lower stage are blank, 

 and tlie bell-chamber stage sets back slightly. The 

 windows consist of two grouped trefoilcd lancets, 

 witli shafted jambs and moulded heads, with trefoil 

 opening above, set between two blind lancets, the 

 whole composition forming a triple arcade on each 

 side, covering the greater part of the wall surface. 

 The arch between the nave and tower is modern. 

 The spire belongs to a type sometimes known as timber 



Scale of Feet 



]3I!J Century 

 14 B Ceintury 

 1512 Century 

 161!! Century 

 ES Subsequent 4. Mod 



Plan of Denford Church 



westernmost in the north wall are of three lights 

 and have the late 13th century intersecting tracery 

 already described, and another at the east end of the 

 north wall has three gradated lancets under a single 

 arch with pierced spandrels. The west window 

 of the north aisle is blocked, and the two 15th-century 

 middle windows are of three trefoiled lights with 

 vertical tracery. In the south aisle, on either side 

 of the doorway, and at the west end, are rectangular 

 openings with excellent mouldings and tracery of 

 a late 14th century type, and the window at the 

 east end of the aisle is four-centred and of three 

 uncusped lights with vertical tracery. It appears 

 to be a 16th-century insertion, at which time probably 

 the east end of the north aisle was walled up, after 

 the disuse or removal of the chapel. The south 

 aisle appears to have been repaired at the end of the 

 14th century, as indicated by the character of the 

 square-headed windows, and the parapet has fine 

 gargoyles of this date. The clearstory windows 

 are square-headed and of two trefoiled lights, but 

 on the north side they were altered to plain single 

 openings probably in the 1 8th century, the old rear 

 arches being retained. 



" Ac a parochial viucation held in the Thii, apparently, wai removed in 1864. 

 church 3 Juoe, 1718, according to an order The pretent Kone pulpit wai erected in 

 of the court there wit to be • new pulpit. 1926. 



spires worked in masonry, and rises from behind a 

 plain parapet with angle pinnacles, carried on a 

 bold corbel table. The spire has ribbed angles, and 

 two sets of gabled lights on its cardinal faces. At 

 the level of the lower lights, it is ornamented with 

 bands and strings. 



The font and pulpit" are modern. The roofs 

 also are modern throughout, but the corbels for the 

 wall-pieces and some fragments of the timbers appear 

 to be old. A bracket for an image remains in the 

 south-east corner of the south aisle. The east end 

 of the north aisle is screened off to form a vestry. 

 The organ is under the tower arch. 



There are six bells, the first by Thomas Norris 

 of Stamford, 1629, the second by Robert Mott of 

 Whitechapel, 1581, and the others by Matthew and 

 Henry Bagley, of Chacomb, 1680.'^ 



The plate consists of a silver cup of c. 1570, a paten 

 inscribed ' Denford 1682,' and a cover paten of 

 c. 1700." 



The registers before 1812 are as follows: (i) all 

 entries 1597-1613, 1618-38, 1654-73, (ii) all entries 

 1674-1718, (iii) all entries 1727-52, Isaptisms and 

 burials 1753-1812, (iv) marriages 1754-1812. 



'* North, Cb. Belli of Nonbanit. 247, 

 where the iatcriptiona are given. 

 " Markham, Cb. Plate of SorthamU. 96. 



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