HUXLOE HUNDRED 



WOODFORD 



is plain. The tower terminates with a trefoiled 

 corbel table and plain parapet with elaborate angle 

 pinnacles.** The pointed tower arch has been rebuilt ; 

 it is of three** chamfered orders, the innermost on 

 half-octagonal responds with moulded capitals and 

 bases. The line of the high-pitched I3tl>-century 

 nave roof rcm.iins above the arcii. There is no 

 vice. 



The spire belongs to the same category as those of 

 Denford and Grafton Underwood, with ' broaches ' 

 behind the parapet, and has ribbed angles and three 

 sets of lights on the cardinal faces. The lights are 

 of early ' Decorated ' character and the lower lights 

 are t ransomed. 



The 13th-century font has a plain hexagonal bowl 

 on si.x detached sliafts with moulded capitals and 

 bases grouped round a central cylindrical stem, and 

 mounted on two hexagonal steps. On the underside 

 of the bowl at the angles arc small sculptured faces. 



The roofs have been extensively restored, but the 

 moulded tie-beams of tiie nave are old and the ridge 

 and purlins in the western portion ; there arc also 

 some old timbers in the south aisle roof and at the 

 east end of the north aisle. 



The wooden effigies of Sir Walter Trailly (d. 1290) 

 and his wife have already been described.*^ They lie 

 under a two-centred segmental moulded arch cut 

 through the wall between the north chapel and the 

 extended nave.*' 



In the chancel is a grave slab with brass of Simon 

 Mallory the elder (d. 1580), who is represented in 

 armour, with shield of arms and inscription,*' and on 

 another slab a brass plate with inscription to Dorothy 

 wife of Simon Mallorv the younger, of Woodford, 

 ' whoe had 15 sonnes and daughters ' and was buried 

 5 June 1639. 



There is some old glass in the top lights of the 

 easternmost window of the north aisle ; it is mostly 

 yellow and white and comprises six figures, including 

 a king and two saints. 



In the west face of the northern compound pier 

 is a heart-burial niche discovered during the restora- 

 tion of 1867.** 



A chest in the nave is dated 1686. 



The pulpit and all the fittings are modern. 



There are six bells, the treble and third by J. 

 Taylor and Co., of Loughborough, 1913 ; the second 

 and tenor, dated 1616; the fourth by Thomas Norris 

 of Stamford, 1662 ; and the fifth by W. and J. Taylor 

 of Oxford, 1839.** 



The plate consists of a cup of c. 1570 with the 



maker's initials i m linked, a paten inscribed ' W. 

 Yates, rector, W. Wootton, J. Mollis Eccl. Guard. 

 1683,' without date-letter, but with the mark e b 

 thrice repeated; a jug-shaped flagon of 1863, and a 

 silver gilt cup and paten of 1872 ; there is also a 

 pewter tlagon with tlic maker's mark r b.*" 



The registers before 1812 are as follows* (i) bap- 

 tisms and burials 16S0-1K00, marriages 1680-1753 ; 

 (ii) marriages 1754-1812; (iii) baptisms 1806-1812, 

 burials 1801-1812. The first pages of the third 

 volume are cut out. 



The church of All Saints or St. 

 ADl'OjySON Mary'i probably existed at the time 

 of the Domesday survey, when the 

 priest appears amongst the tenants of the Bishop of 

 Coutances.^ To which holding in Woodford the 

 advowson belonged at that time is not apparent, but 

 probably the Maufcs claimed it. In 1 205 an agree- 

 ment was made between Walter Trailly and Lucas 

 Maufe, the tenants of the two holdings, that each 

 should hold a mediety of the advowson,'^ and this 

 division remained. TheTraillys' mediety was known 

 as the northern, or later as Cock's mediety,** and was 

 held by Walter's descendants until 1400,^ when Sir 

 John Trailly, knt., died seised of it. He seems, 

 however, to have granted it to Sir Gerald Braybrook, 

 knt., and Edmund Hampden, who presented in 1411.^' 

 Thomas Hampden and Richard Restwold presented 

 in 1461, and John Hampden in 1511.^' John Hampden 

 appears to have granted the presentation to different 

 people in 1524, 1526 and 1549, and finally to Simon 

 Mallory, who presented in 1558.^ In 1622, his 

 nephew Simon Mallory sold a mediety of the advowson 

 to Sir Rowland St. John,^' but he had also inherited 

 part at least of the other mediety, so that it is not certain 

 what was included in the sale.^" By 1648, however, 

 the St. Johns had acquired both medieties,^! and 

 Lord St. John is the present patron of the living. 



The other mediety, which was assigned in 1205 to 

 Lucas Maufe and his heirs, was known as the southern 

 or Style's mediety,** and was divided like the manor 

 (q.v.) among the heiresses of Robert Maufe. In 1286 

 an arrangement was made by which John de Bois 

 and his wife Alice and their heirs, as tenants of two 

 parts of the manor, should make the first and third 

 of every four presentations to the mediety, while 

 Richard de Trailly, Roger de Bozoun, his wife Alice 

 and their heirs, as tenants of a quarter of the manor, 

 should make the fourth presentation, and Geoffrey 

 Trailly, his son William and their heirs, the second 

 presentation, as tenants of the last quarter of the 



*' The pinnacles were probably added 

 when the spire was built ; their plan ' con- 

 sists of eight alternate rounds and hollows, 

 the top is a composition of heads and 

 croclceted canopies and is crowned by 

 a finial ' : Chs. Archd. Northampi. 82. 



** There arc four orders on the west side, 

 the two outer dying out. 



•* y.C.II. Norlhanls. i. 401. 



•• ' For upwards of twenty years the 

 effigies were reposing at the west end of 

 the church, having been removed from 

 their arch, but on paving the north aisle 

 in 1845 they were placed near their original 

 situation at the east end of the aisle' (Cole, 

 MS. Hat. oj Woodford). They were subse- 

 quently replaced under the arch. 



•' The inscription reads ; * Here lyethe 

 Sjrmon Malory the elder esquyer who dyed 



the daye of in the yere of our Lordc 

 God McccccLxxx and whos soule is in 

 the greate mercye of Jesus Christ our 

 Savyor.' 



'** It contained a box in which a human 

 heart was found wrapped in a piece of 

 cloth : Northampt. N. &■ Q. 1K84-5, 



P- 75- 



*" The treble was added in 1913 to a ring 

 of five, and all the bells rehung. The old 

 second (now third) was by Tobie Norris 

 1673. The inscriptions on the old bells are 

 given in North, Cb. Bells of Northann. 

 450. 



•" Markham, Cb. Plate of NorthanH. 

 321. 



" De Banco R. 537, m. 222; Recov. 

 R. Hil. 19 Ja«. I, ro. 17 ; Bacon, Liber 

 Regit, p. 823. 



261 



" V.C.H Nortbants. i, 311. 



" Feet of F. Northants, Trin. 7 John. 

 The name Tilly in the fine seems an 

 obvious error for Trailly. 



" Bridges, op. cit. ii, 267; Bacon, loc. 

 cit. 



" Bridges, loc. cit. ; Rot. Rob. Grosse- 

 tesle (Cant, and York Soc), pp. 203, 226 ; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. 1 Hen. IV, pt. 1, no. 42. 



"' Bridg's, loc. cit. 



" Ibid. 



«« IbiJ 



'" Feet of F. Northants. Mich. 19 

 Jas. I. 



«» Ibid. Hil. 34 Elli. ; W. C. Metcalfe, 

 Viiit. of Nortbants. pp. 25, 112. 



♦■ Instit. Bks. (P.R.O.) 1629, 1638, 

 1648. 



*' Bridges, loc. cit. \ Bacon, loc. cit. 



