HUXLOE HUNDRED irthlikgborough 



cusping, containing a I3th-cenfar) coped coffin lid 

 witii cross in circle. Thus far the work belongs to 

 the late 13th century bay, which extends about 12 ft. 

 beyond the chapel on the south side. Further west 

 in the south wall is a fragment of the earlier 13th- 

 century piscina and a rectangular aumbry, the lintel 

 of which has a cusped trefoil cut on the face. The 

 western half of the chancel, which formed the collegiate 

 quire, is open to the chapels on both sides by 13th- 

 century arcades of two arclies on piers composed of 

 four clustered shafts and hall-round responds, all 

 with moulded capitals and bases : the arches are 

 of two chamfered orders. The wide and lofty chancel 

 arch is of similar character, the outer order continuous, 

 the inner springing from attached shafts with moulded 

 capitals and bases on high plinths. The chancel 

 clearstory has four square-headed three-light win- 

 dows on each side, the western windows being 

 narrower than the rest. 



The chapels ditTer in size, but that on the north 

 has been rebuilt and its east wall moved slightly 

 west of the respond of the chancel arcade. This was 

 probably done at the beginning of the l6th century 

 by Sir Thomas Cheyney, whose arms occur on two of 

 a row of otherwise blank shields on the parapet. The 

 walling is rather rough and without string-course or 

 buttress, but the old windows were re-used. As 

 rebuilt, the chapel measures internally 21 ft. 6 in. by 

 13 ft., and it is divided from the north aisle by a 13th- 

 century arch of two chamfered orders springing from 

 half-round responds at a considerably higher level 

 than those of the nave and chancel arcades. The east 

 window is of two lights with forked muUion and in 

 the north wall is a restored 14th-century window of 

 two trefoiled lights and quatrefoil in the head. 



The south chapel is 29 ft. long by 16 ft. wide, and 

 has a moulded outer doorway and two two-light 

 windows with forked muUions in the south wall. 

 The east window is blocked : on its north jamb is 

 an image bracket and another in the north wall 

 adjoining. From the north-east angle of the chapel 

 a 15th-century squint with cinquefoiled and em- 

 battled head is directed to the high altar.'^ The 

 arch to the aisle is similar to that on the north side, 

 but has been restored. 



The 13th-century nave arcades consist of four 

 arches*-' of two chamfered orders springing from piers 

 of four clustered shafts with moulded capitals and 

 bases and from half-round responds. The capitals 

 of the north arcade are more elaborately moulded 

 and of greater projection than those opposite, but on 

 both sides the arches are built of approximately 

 alternate voussoirs of ironstone and freestone, like 

 those of the chancel arcades.*' The bases of the piers 

 of the south arcade stand upon square plinths and 

 12th-century circular moulded bases with foot orna- 

 ments : the plinths alone remain on the north side. 

 The lines of the high-pitched 13th-century roof are 

 still visible at the ends of the nave and high in the 

 west wall is a three-light 14th-century window with 

 excellent tracery, probably inserted by Pyel. The 

 lofty clearstory windows have very depressed arches 



and are of three trefoiled lights. The doorway to 

 the rood loft remains in the south wall west of the 

 chancel arch : towards the aisle several steps of the 

 rood stair remain in the thickness of the wall. 



The north aisle has a late 14th-century square- 

 headed window of four trefoiled lights at the west end 

 and in the north wall a blocked doorway with con- 

 tinous mouldings, a 15th-century window of three 

 lights like those of the nave clearstory, and furtlicr 

 east a square-headed I4th-cenlury two-light windov/. 

 Externally, east of the doorway, is a mutilated stoup 

 and above it a moulded rectangular recess with blank 

 panel. 



The south aisle has a restored west window of three 

 gradated lancets, and in the south wall a square- 

 headed 14th-century three-light window with good 

 reticulated tracery. West of this is a single lancet 

 vvhicii, though modernised, appears to be one of the 

 original windows of the 13th-century church: there 

 is another in the west wall of the south transept. 



This transept is divided from the aisle by a wide 

 14th-century arch of two chamfered orders, the inner 

 springing from half-octagonal responds with moulded 

 capitals and bases, and is lighted at the end by a 

 pointed 14th-century window of three lights with 

 reticulated tracery : in the east wall is a late 13th 

 century two-light window with forked mullion. 

 Below the transept is a crypt, or bone-hole, approached 

 from the aisle by a staircase in the thickness of the 

 west wall and covered by a single bay of quadripartite 

 vaulting, the ribs of which spring from low angle- 

 shafts. The crypt is lighted by windows on the 

 south and east. 



The 13th-century arch to the north transept is 

 similar in character to that between the aisle and 

 the north chapel. Externally the transept has low 

 diagonal buttresses, and is lighted at the end by a 

 window of three gradated lancets and from the west 

 by a two-light window with forked mullion. In 

 the east wall is a wide and deeply recessed moulded 

 arch resting on three short shafts; the arch appears 

 never to have been opened and probably contained 

 the transept altar. 



The west porch had originally a chamber over,'- 

 but is now open its full height and covered with a 

 modern high-pitched tiled roof hipped at the east end 

 so as not to interfere with the nave window *^ The 

 porch has four doorways, those north and south being 

 external and placed near the west end of the walls. 

 They have a continuous moulding and labels on the 

 outside, but internally plain segmental rear arches 

 only. The east doorway is, of course, the west 

 doorway of the church and is moulded similarly to 

 the porch, but with some difference in the termina- 

 tions of the label. On each side of the doorway is a 

 trefoiled niche and above are two transomed, or double 

 stage niches with groined canopies and the arms of Pyel 

 below the sills. The doorway into the forebuildingof 

 the tower corresponds in moulding with theothers.and 

 over it is a trefoiled niche with a flue behind, evidently 

 intended for a light." The porch is now lighted by 

 modern pointed windows of two lights in the north 



" On the chancel lidc the opening ii 

 quite phin. 



'° The eastern arch of both arcades 

 oppoiite the traniepti ii 10 ft. wide i the 

 width of the other* ii 9 ft. 



•' Ironilonr is alio uied in some of the 



piers and responds, but is disposed »ery 

 irregularly. 



"^ The room had a fireplace and was at 

 one time used as a school It was rcmoTed 

 about 1S46 : ths. Archd. Northamfl. 1 16. 



^' Under the window arc the marks of 



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the original porch roof, which wai of verj 

 low pitch. 



^^ Chi. Archd. Northampt. Ii6. The 

 niche wai originnllr higher ; it was 

 lowered when a flat ceiling was inierted in 

 the porch. 



