A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



Barnard. Argent a bear 

 rampant sable. 



it descended through his daughter Margaret, who had 

 married one of the Hastings, to her daughter Margaret 

 wife of Sir John Sulney. Margaret Sulney died in 1 38 1 

 and part of this manor of Great Doddington came to 

 William Daundelyn, son of Joan a sister of William 

 de Champayne. This part of the manor afterwards 

 became known as Barnard's Manor. The remainder, 

 called later Turvill's Manor (q.v.), was divided between 

 Margaret wife of Geoffrey Bugge and Elizabeth wife 

 of Thomas Hunt, daughters of Margaret Foucher, 

 another sister of William de Champayne." A later 

 William Daundelyn died seised in 1480 and his heir 

 was Mary Daundelyn daughter of his son John.^ She 

 married John Barnard and from them the manor 

 passed to their son John and his wife Cecily Muscote.^ 

 John Barnard died in i 549 and 

 was succeeded by his son Francis,'' 

 who in 1572 settled the manor 

 on his son John when he married 

 Dorothy Cane one of the daugh- 

 ters of Francis Cane of Bagrave. 

 In 1586 an inquisition was held 

 as to the lunacy of John Bar- 

 nard;' at that time he had been 

 out of his mind for sis years; 

 his brother Baldwin was his 

 heir. In 1601 Francis, the 

 father of John and Baldwin, died; in 1 561 he had 

 bought the other half of the manor of Doddington from 

 Richard Turvill and had settled it in 1589 on his 

 younger son Baldwin,* who thus came into possession 

 of the w'hole manor. He died in 1610 and was suc- 

 ceeded by his son and heir John then aged 6.' In 1646 

 John Barnard sold a large part of his estate of Great 

 Doddington to Thomas Parker.^ Only isolated references 

 to it occur after this. In 1682 John Hackney conveyed 

 it by fine to Francis Guy,' and in 17 19 it was held by 

 Mr. Lamb.'" In 1773 Ambrose Isted transferred it to 

 Richard Heron;" this manor then included a miU 

 which in 1781 was held by the Earl of Northamp- 

 ton,'^ so it is probable that the manor also passed to 

 him. 



The other moiety of the manor, afterwards known 

 as TURFILVS MANOR, was held by Thomas Hunt 

 during his life, and the reversion was granted in 1394 

 by John Wasteneys and Margaret his wife (probably 

 the widow of Geoffi"ey Bugge) to James de Kyneton, 

 clerk, and his heirs. '^ James came into possession during 

 the next year.'* There is no further mention of this 

 manor until the year 1 507, when John TurviU died 

 seised of it; his son and heir William was then 23 years 

 old. '5 In 1552 the manor had passed to a John Turvill, 

 who was succeeded by his son Richard.'^ In 1562 

 Richard sold the manor to Francis Barnard, "and hence- 

 forward it followed the same descent as Barnard's 

 Manor (q.v.). 



There was a mill from early times, as the miUer of 

 Doddington was said in 1329 to have been drowned 

 while closing the sluice-gates of the mill of 'Hepde- 

 wath'.'* A miU attached to the manor of Barnards in 

 1773 was subsequently held by the Earl of Northamp- 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 5 Ric. II, no. 50. 



^ Ibid. 20 Edw. IV, no. 1 7. 



^ Metcalfe, Vitit. Northants. p. 3. 



^ Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxxix, 104. 



5 Ibid, ccx, 149. ^ Ibid, cclxxi, 176. 



' Ibid, cccxix, 202. 



^ Add. Charts. 5147-9. Barnard's and 

 Turvill's were then still separate manors. 



9 Feet of F. Northants. Trin. 34 

 Chas. II. 



'0 Bridges, Northants. ii, 140. 



" Feet of F. Northants. East. 13 Geo. 

 III. 



'2 Recov. R.Trin. 21 Geo. Ill, no. 385. 



" Feet of F. Northants. 18 Ric. II, 

 no. 157. 



ton, as already mentioned, and was doubtless on the 

 site of the present mill on the River Nene. 



The church of ST. NICHOLAS con- 

 CHURCH sists of chancel, 36 ft. 6 in. by 17 ft. 6 in.; 

 clerestoried nave, 54 ft. 6 in. by 20 ft. 6in.; 

 north and south aisles, 10 ft. wide; south porch, and 

 west tower, 1 2 ft. square, all these measurements being 

 internal. The width across nave and aisles is 46 ft. 9 in. 



A church was built here during the first half of the 

 1 2th century, having an aisleless nave with north 

 transept, chancel, and west tower. Of this church little 

 is left but the upper part of the nave walls above the 

 arcades and the lower part of the tower: the scalloped 

 capital of a nook-shaft inserted in the wall near the 

 south doorway appears to be c. 1140. The upper part 

 of the tower is late in the same century. The chancel 

 was rebuilt and no doubt lengthened early in the 13th 

 century and was further increased in length by about 

 8 ft. c. 1290— 1300. Soon after this the aisles appear to 

 have been added, or at any rate completed in their 

 present form, but the first pier from the east on the 

 south side, which has 1 3th-century nail-head ornament, 

 is different from the rest and may indicate that an aisle 

 had been begun earlier on this side and left unfinished. 

 The south doorway has good plain early-l4th-century 

 mouldings. 



The 13th-century chancel had lancet windows in 

 the side walls, but soon after the completion of the 

 aisles they were altered into wider windows of two 

 lights, with the exception of one on the north side. 

 The clerestory was added c. 1400, superseding a high- 

 pitched roof the tabling of which remains on the east 

 wall of the tower. The porch appears to be of early- 

 iBth-century date. The church was restored in 1871. 



The building is of rubble throughout, with low- 

 pitched leaded roofs to nave and aisles. Internally the 

 plaster has been stripped from the walls except in the 

 chancel, where it remains above the string. The para- 

 pets of the aisles are battlemented and those of the nave 

 plain: over the east gable of the nave are the remains 

 of a sanctus-bell turret. 



The chancel has a modern red-tiled roof and plain 

 parapets, with coupled angle buttresses, and is of two 

 bays. Externally the five-light east window is entirely 

 restored, but its rear arch and internal shafted jambs 

 belong to the late-i3th-century extension, the length 

 of which is clearly indicated outside by the character 

 of the masonry. The windows are set high and there 

 is a string-course at sill level within and without. On 

 the south side are four square-headed windows of two 

 trefoiled lights, two to each bay, the easternmost 

 wholly of the 14th century, but the rest insertions 

 within the original widely-splayed 13th-century open- 

 ings, the segmental rear arches of which remain. There 

 are two similar inserted windows in the middle of the 

 north wall," but with uncusped lights, and east of them 

 the original lancet already referred to. In the south 

 wall, in the usual position, is a cusped piscina with 

 shafted jambs and fluted bowl, and west of it two tre- 

 foiled sedilia at the same level, the eastern seat contain- 

 ing the bowl of the earlier piscina re-used. The 13th- 



"• Ibid. Div. Co. 19 Ric. II, no. 1 1 1. 

 '5 Chan. Inq. p.m. 22 Hen. VII, no. 140. 

 ■<> Feet of F. Div. Co. East. 6 Edw. VI. 

 " Ibid. Northants. Hil. 4 Eliz. 

 *^ Assize R. 632, m. 6 d. 

 " All these six windows are externally 

 wholly of the 14th century. 



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