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organ chamber and vestry in 1)595 '' ''-'J '""K been 

 blocked. The chancel arch is apparently of the same 

 period and consists of two chamfered orders, the 

 inner springing from half-octagonal responds with 

 moulded capitals and bases. 



The north wall of the nave retains near its west end 

 a widely splayed round-headed 12th-century window 

 and a contemporary doorway, now blocked, which 

 externally has a shouldered head with cabled lintel 

 and roundel cusps, hatched tympanum, and sunk- 

 star hood mould. The round arch to the northern 

 transcptal chapel has long been blocked, and now 

 contains a two-light window 

 with forked mullion, the 

 tracery of which, however, 

 is modern.'" When the arch 

 was made there was an earlier 

 round-headed window high 

 in the wall, part of the head 

 of which is still visible with 

 a course of herring-bone 

 work to the east of it. 



At the west end of the 

 aisle is a small restored 

 12th-century window with 

 modern round head, and in 

 the south wall two late 

 13th-century windows with 

 forked muUions. A three- 

 light window with intersect- 

 ing tracery in the east wall 

 now opens on to the vestry, 

 to which a doorway has been 

 cut through the middle light. 



The 12th-century soutli doorway has a semi-circular 

 arch of two orders, the inner with a continuous 

 round moulding, the outer with cheverons on nook- 

 shafts with capitals of very conventional foliage and 

 moulded bases. The middle cheveron, or keystone, is 

 carved with a head on the upper part, and the hood 

 has a billet and indented moulding. On the east 

 side of the doorway inside is a stoup with projecting 

 moulded bowl. 



The porch is of local type, with stone bench tables, 

 diagonal buttresses and outer doorway of two moulded 

 orders, the inner on h.nlf-round responds with moulded 

 capitals and high bases : the roof is covered with red 

 tiles. The 15th-century clearstory windows are 

 square-headed and of two lights. 



The tower is of three slightly receding stages, and 

 seems to be of 12th-century date to the corbel table, 

 though the large two-light bell-chamber windows are 

 probably c. 1 190, and contemporary with the nave 

 arcade. The west window is a single round-headed 

 opening, but the north and south sides are blank in 

 the lower stage. In the middle stage the head of a 

 14th century window is inserted on the south side, 

 and the string between this and the upper story 

 has a species of large nail-head moulding. The bell- 

 chamber windows are of two lights under semi- 

 circular arches, but their heads have been cither 

 blocked, or, as on the north side, opened out with early 

 Perpendicular tracery. Above the windows is a 

 corbel tabic of grotesque masks and notch heads, and 



over tliis again a b.md of quatrcfnils and I5tli-century 

 battlementcd parapet with angle pinnacles. The tower 

 is without buttresses and there is no vice. 



The font consists of a plain unmounted octagonal 

 bowl of late 12th or early 13th century date, on 

 a circular moulded plinth, and has a good flat 

 Jacobean wood cover with central post and curved 

 side pieces. 



The pulpit and fittings are modern. The present 

 chancel roof dates from 1867, and the stalls were 

 erected in 1898 to commemorate the work of the Rev. 

 Horace Waller (rector 1874-95), one of the original 



2 Centurv 

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S 1 51iJ Century 

 CZl Modern 



Scale ofPeet 

 Plan of Twywell Church 



members of the Universities' Mission to Central 

 Africa : thev are characteristically carved to represent 

 his labours in that region. Set within tlie rercdos are 

 three small stones from Calvary given to Mr. Waller 

 by General Gordon in 1880. 



In the chancel floor are the grave slabs of Thomas 

 Ekins, gent. (d. 1713), and of Dorothy Ekins (d. 1720), 

 daughter of Arthur Brooke of Great Oakley. 



In the top light of one of the aisle windows is the 

 shield of England (l and 4 France, 2 and 3 England) 

 with a label of five points. 



On the jambs of the south doorway, now within 

 the porch, are eight scratch dials — four on each 

 side. 



There arc five bells, the first and second by J. 

 Taylor and Co., of Loughborough, 1907, and the 

 third a recasting by Taylor in 1867. The fourth 

 and fifth are 15th-century bells cast in London, the 

 former inscribed ' In multis annis resonet Campana 

 Johannis,' and the tenor '\'ox Augustini sonet in aure 

 Deo.'™ 



The plate consists of a cup of c. 1570, a flagon 

 of 1887, and a modern plated cup, paten and 

 bread-holder. There are also a pewter flagon and 

 plate." 



The registers before 1812 are as follows : (i) 

 baptisms 1586-1667, marriages and burials 1577-1667; 

 (ii) baptisms, marriages and burials 1668-1754 ; 

 (iii) baptisms and burials 1755-1812; (iv) marriages 

 1755-1812. 



" The window may have btcn originally Both the old belli have one of the 



at the end of the transept. floriated croisei introduced by John Wal- 



'° North, Cb. Belli of Norihanls. 423. grave (1418-40), and the tenor hat alio 



251 



Walgrave'j trade mark. The fourth bears 

 the mark of Robert Crowch (i43i)-5o). 

 " Markham, Ch. Plate oJNorthanti. lU. 



