HUXLOE HUNDRED 



SUDBOROUGH 



Tichmarsh and Margaret dc Waterville passed to their 

 son John and from him to his son Henry and his wife 

 Joan.^' It dcscenJoJ with the Tichm.irsii Manor 

 in Tichmarsh (qv.), and was represented by the manor 

 of Somercetts in Tichmarsh, Sudborough, and I.owicii 

 of which a grant was made to John and Cjilbcrt 

 Pickering in 1587-8." 



In 1490-1 a dispute arose about common of pasture 

 in Lowick Leyse pertaining to Lowick, and Brigsy 

 Leycs (Brigstock Leys) pertaining to Sudborough, 

 which was referred by the inhabitants to Kdward, 

 Earl of Wiltshire, as chief lord over botli lordships.** 



SUDBOROUGH P.-IRK, which was originally 

 held with the manor,*^ was in 1670, with a messuage, 

 10 acres of meadow, 530 acres of pasture and 10 acres 

 of wood and appurtenances in Sudborough, Lowick, 

 and Brigstock, in the hands of William Montagu, and 

 Mary his wife, who conveyed it by fine to Montagu 

 Lane.« 



SUDBOROUGH GREEX was referred to in 1540 

 in a licence to impark Lyvedcn Park, the westcrri 

 side of which was described as abutting upon it.*' 

 In 1795 an Inclosure Act was passed for Brigstock, 

 Stanion, and such part of the parish of Sudborough 

 as is called Sudborough Green. It was stated that 

 the commoners in Brigstock and Sudborough inter- 

 commoned with each other in certain commons, 

 called Brigstock Commons ; and the Great and Little 

 Green adjoining the same, and that the cattle upon 

 these commons were liable to escape into the Haye 

 or Walk of Farming Woods, part of the Forest of 

 Rockingham. An allotment of these greens was 

 made.** 



The church of JLL S.IINTS consists 

 CHURCH of chancel 33 ft. 4 in. by 15 ft., nave of 

 three bays 40 ft. 3 in. by 17 ft., north and 

 south aisles each 8 ft. 6 in. wide, north and south 

 transcptal chapels each 14 ft. by 13 ft., south porch, 

 and west tower 9 ft. by 9 ft. 10 in. The width across 

 the nave and aisles is 38 ft. 8 In., and across the 

 transepts 50 ft. 6 in. All these measurements are 

 interna!. The church was entirely rebuilt in the 

 second half of the 13th century, probably in place of 

 an aisleless cruciform building, the influence of which 

 is apparent in the transeptal plan. The tower and 

 nave with its aisles seem to have been rebuilt first, 

 followed by the transeptal chapels and chancel, 

 which were completed c. 1280-90. No substantial 

 addition was made subsequently other than the 

 porch, which was built in the 15th century, when 

 new windows were also inserted in the aisles. Tlie 

 building was repaired in 1808, and again in 1830 

 when a west gallery was erected. In 185 1 the gallery 

 was taken down and the north aisle rebuilt ; the 

 porch was rebuilt in 1870, and the chancel restored in 

 1871-72. At a later restoration (1891) two stones 

 were found under the north-east pier, which together 

 forriied part of a pre-Conquest cross. They were 

 replaced in the position in wliich they were found 

 but unfortunately covered with cement so that the 

 carving is obliterated.*' 



The chancel is divided externally into two bays by 



buttresses, each of which is finished by a small pedi- 

 ment set in the middle of its upper slope and orna- 

 mented on the outfr face by a spherical triangle with 

 ciisping. Over the pairs of buttresses at the eastern 

 angles are handsome octagon pinnacles, the tops of 

 which seem to have disappeared. There is a plain 

 doorway in the south wall. Tlie windows retain their 

 original geometrical tracery, of a very elegant type, 

 with applied cusping ; the lights have trcfoiled heads, 

 and the mullions are moulded. The east window is 

 of four lights with a flat head, and has internally a 

 segmental rere-arch. The lateral windows on either 

 side from cast to west are respectively of three, two, 

 and one light, the narrower openings having obtusely 

 pointed rerc-arches. On the north side the single 

 light of the western window is lowered with a transom, 

 forming a low-side opening. Tlie corresponding 

 window on the south has a low sill and may have been 

 planned in the same way, but the lower part was never 

 open. This window, like all the others, has a square 

 hood outside ; in this case the hood is finished with 

 very curious head-stops, rudely carved with roughly 

 indicated hair. 



On the south side of the chancel internally are two 

 sedilia with beautiful late 13th-century moulded 

 arches springing from dwarf columns. In the eastern 

 seat, which is a step higher than the western, is a 

 piscina with fluted bowl. Opposite, in the north 

 wall, is a tomb-recess with a drop arch, containing an 

 efhgy of Sir Robert de Vere (d. 1249), which has 

 already been described.^ 



The arch between the chancel and nave is of the 

 same character as the arches of the nave arcades, with 

 rather plain half-octagon responds. The piers of the 

 nave are cylindrical, with bases which in some cases 

 have water-mouldings. Tlie capitals are of two types 

 which difler slightly in design as regards the abaci 

 and the section of the upper mouldings. The arches 

 are of two orders, the inner order having a hollow 

 chamfer. From each pier a transverse arch is carried 

 across the adjoining aisle to a respond ; the chamfers 

 of tliese arches arc stopped by small broaches above 

 the capitals. Similar arches are carried across the 

 cast wall of each transeptal chapel. The transept 

 windows have good geometrical tracery, which in the 

 north chapel has been much restored ; that in the 

 three-light soutli window of the south chapel is a 

 remarkably beautiful example of early bar-tracery. 

 In this and in the east window are some fragments of 

 old glass ;^l and in the south wall of the south chapel 

 there is a piscina with octagonal bowl, large hollow- 

 chamfered arch and hood. 



The windows of the aisles, as already noted, are 

 15th-century insertions. The north and south door- 

 ways of the nave are contemporary with the arcades, 

 and the north doorway has a well-preserved roll and 

 triple fillet moulding in its outer order. The porch 

 has a high gable and outer arch of two moulded orders, 

 the inner springing from half-round responds with 

 moulded capitals. The walling throughout is of rubble, 

 with plain parapets to chancel and aisles, and eavcd 

 roofs to the transepts. The chancel roof is leaded. 



*■ Plot, de Qut Warr. (Rec. Com.), 570. 

 "Pit. R. 30 Elij. pt. 8. 

 ** Hililcid, op. cit. 205. 

 " Feet or F. Div. Cot. Hil. 6 Jii. I ; 

 Cbao. loq. p.m. (Scr. ii), cccix, aoo. 



" Feet of F. Northanfs. Ilil. 21 and 

 22 Chas. II. 



«' L. and P. Hen. VI II, xv, g. 831 (50). 

 " Priv. Stat. 35 Geo. Ill, cap. 58. 



•" Norlhants. N. and Q. (New Ser.), i, 26. 

 '» V.C.H. Noribanls. i, 394-;. 

 ^' 15th-century quarries with fleurs dc 

 lii and ' Maria ' in monogram. 



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