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heiresses, Mary the wife of the Earl of Wemyss and 

 Anne, afterwards the wife of Lord Gowran ; Anne 

 obtained both moieties of the manor.'" which de- 

 scended to her son John Fitz Patrick, who was created 

 Earl of Upper Ossory in 1751.-'- On 5 April 1748 Jolui 

 Fitz Patrick sold the manor to John second Duke of 

 Montagu.^^ The Duke died in the following year and 

 the manor descended through his daughter, Mary 

 wife of George Brudenell, Duke of Montagu to the 

 present Duke of Buccleuch, who is now lord of the 

 manor.** 



In 1086 woodland was 

 attached to the manor a 

 league in length and four 

 furlongs in breadth.'** The 

 manor was within the Forest 

 of Rockingham, but in 

 1343 Simon Simeon obtained 

 licence to enclose his wood 

 there and five years later to 

 empark it, but he was not 

 allowed to make a deer-leap 

 in it.'" In 1450 Henry 

 Greene obtained leave to 

 empark his woods called 

 Grafton Park and Grafton 

 Woods and certain fields 

 and to have free chase in 

 the woods.*' The manor 

 was disafforested in 1639.''* 



A mill is mentioned in 

 131 1, when it was granted 

 in fee with other tenements 

 to Thomas Brown, the 



tenant for life of a moiety of the manor,'" with which 

 it was granted in 1316 to John Seymour.^" 



The church of ST. JAMES consists 

 CHURCH of chancel 30 ft. 6 in. by 16 ft. 9 in. 

 with north chapel, clearstoried nave of 

 three bays 32 ft. 6 in. by 18 ft. 6 in., north and south 

 aisles about 9 ft. wide, south porch, and west tower 

 8 ft. 6 in. square surmounted by a spire ; all these 

 measurements are internal. The north chapel and 

 aisle are continuous without division and there is a 

 small vestry north of the tower. The width across 

 nave and aisles is 42 ft. 



The building is of rubble throughout, and the 

 roofs of the nave and aisles are leaded behind plain 

 parapets ; the chancel has a high-pitched tiled roof 

 with overhanging eaves, and the porch is also covered 

 with tiles. 



The earliest work in the present building is the 

 north arcade of the nave, which is of late 12th century 

 date, at which time an aisle was probably first added 

 to an earlier church. The arches are semi-circular 

 and of two square orders, springing from cylindrical 

 piers with moulded bases and shallow capitals with 

 square abaci, and from half-round responds with outer 

 angle shafts. The capitals are carved with bold 

 scroll foliage and the bases stand on square plinths. 



GRAFTON 



UNDERWOOD 



The south arcade and the tower were built early 

 in the 13th century and the chancel arch is of the 

 same period, but there are no architectural features 

 in the chancel itself older tiian c. 1290. The round 

 arches of the south arcade are of two orders, the 

 outer square and the inner chamfered, springing from 

 cylindrical piers of more slender dimensions''"' than 

 those opposite with moulded bases and carved capitals 

 with circular abaci : the responds are half-octagonal. 

 The capitals have elementary stiff- stalk trefoils in 



North Aisle 



:::.?s::::.::u:::. 



Nave 



:g) South Aisle 



□ 1212 Century late;c.H90 



I3S Century 



I4EJCENTURYC.I34.0 



1512 Century 

 E3 Subsequent 



so 



20 



40 



JP 



Plan 



Scale of Feet 



OF Grafton Underwood Church 



low relief with nail head up the middle leaves, and 

 nail head also occurs on the west respond. In the 

 east respond the foliage is more fully developed. 



About the middle of the 14th century alterations 

 were made to the chancel, and the chapel added. The 

 spire also dates from this period, and the south 

 aisle seems to have been rebuilt.^'- The aisle has a 

 string course at sill level and retains its west window 

 and south doorway, in front of which the porch was 

 built. New windows were inserted in both aisles in 

 the 15th century and the clearstory was added, or 

 an old one rebuilt. 



The chancel has diagonal angle buttresses and an 

 east window of four cinquefoiled lights, with transom 

 and excellent tracery of mixed geometrical and 

 curvilinear character, the date of which may be 

 c. 1340. The two-light window at the east end of 

 the north wall and the three-light window opposite 

 are of the same period, the former with trefoiled lights 

 and quatrefoil in the head, the latter with reticulated 

 tracery. The plain priest's doorway is of the late 

 13th century and west of it is a contemporary window 

 of two trefoiled lights and plain circle in the head, 

 which seems to have been re-used in the 14th-century 

 alterations, its jambs being of that period.''^ In the east 

 wall, north and south of the altar, are elaborate 



*' Bridgei, op. cit. ii, 233; Recov. R. 

 Hil. 7 Annf, ro. 125. 



*• G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



*• Inf. from Messrs. NicboU Mani^ty and 

 Co. " See WarVton, p. 254 below. 



" V.C.H.Northanu.\,-ii(>b. 



"Col. Pat. 1343-45, P- **> ''''''• 

 1348-50, p. 57. 



" Chart. R. 27 to 49 Hen. VI, no. 38 ; 

 Rolls, of Pari. (Rec. Com.) v, 195*. 



" Pat. R. 15 Chas. I, pt. 10. 



*• Cal. Pal. 1307-1313, pp. 321, 400. 



•" Ibid. 1313-17, p. 338. 



** They arc 20 in. diam. and 7 ft. 10 in. 

 to the top of the capital. In the north 



205 



arcade the diam. is :i in. and the height 

 7 ft. 6in. 



*■ And perhaps widened : its width at 

 the west end is 9 ft. 8 in., that of the north 

 aisle 8 ft. loin. 



•' They have a double hollow chamfer, 

 similar to the window at the west end of 

 the south aisle. 



