ORLINGBURY HUNDRED 



SCALDWELL 



by their heirs the Dukes of Buccleuch; but courts have 

 subsequently been held by the Ishams alone.' 



At the Dissolution the abbey of St. Mary of Delapre 

 held lands worth is. ^J. and rents to the value of 

 £2 3/. 2</. in Scaldwell.* These had their origin in 

 small gifts made in the 13th century by Richard de 

 Scaldwell, clerk, and Lettice daughter of Adam de 

 Scaldwell.^ 



Grants of land for the building of a mill were made 

 in the reign of Henry III. William son of Andrew de 

 Scaldwell granted to Christine de Scaldwell, mother of 

 Sir Elias le Chaplain, land in Scaldwell at a yearly rent 

 of one halfpenny:* and this grant was followed by 

 one from Christine de Scaldwell, daughter 

 of Robert, to Elias the chaplain, her son, of 

 land with a windmill thereon granted to her 

 by the said William. ' This must have been 

 on the Bury propert}', as land called Hattons 

 Land, late in the occupation of Richard 

 Scaldwell, and a windmill, with the balk on 

 which it stood, was held by William Hochi- 

 son of Sir Edward Montagu's manor of 

 Warkton.* 



A considerable number of grants of land 

 in Scaldwell by or to the families of Blunt, 

 de Cransley, Hedon, &c., are to be found 

 among Additional Charters at the British 

 Museum.^ 



The church of ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL 

 consists of chancel, 23 ft. 3 in. by 15 ft. 

 CHURCH 3 in., with north aisle and south vestry 

 and organ-chamber, nave of two bays, 

 25 ft. 9 in. by 16 ft., north aisle, 12 ft. 9 in. wide, 

 south aisle, 7 ft. 6 in. wide, south porch, and west 

 tower, 8 ft. 9 in. by 8 ft. 3 in., all these measurements 

 being internal. 



In 1863 the building was extensively restored, two 

 wide galleries filling the north aisle and the whole of 

 the west end being then taken down, the north aisle 

 extended westward about 10 ft., covering the tower, 

 the vestry and organ-chamber added, and the church 

 reseated. Until that time the aisles were of equal length 

 and the chancel stood free on the south side. 



The oldest part of the building is the tower, which 

 is of 12th-century date; the chancel arch, south arcade 

 and aisle, together with a window in the chancel aisle, 

 are of the late 1 3 th century, while the north arcade and 

 aisle and its extension eastward, and the porch date 

 from the i 5th century. The south clerestory was pro- 

 bably an addition of this period, but all its windows are 

 modern, and real evidence of date is therefore wanting. 

 There is no clerestory on the north, the arcade and the 

 aisle wall on that side being of much greater height 

 than on the south. 



The architectural history of the building seems to 

 be as follows: the tower belongs to a Norman church 

 which probably covered the area of the present nave, 

 with a small square-ended chancel. To this, about 

 1280, aisles were added, the nave walls being replaced 

 by arcades and a new chancel built round the old one, 

 which was then pulled down. In the 15th century 

 the north aisle was widened, the arcade rebuilt on a 

 bigger scale, new windows inserted, and a chapel or 

 aisle added on the north side of the chancel, opening to 

 it by two pointed arches, and extending its full length. 



The plan then remained unaltered until the igth 

 century. 



The church is built throughout of rubble,' and the 

 roofs are of low pitch, leaded to nave and aisles, and 

 slated over the chancel. At the cast end of the nave 

 over the chancel arch is a sanctus bell-cote with a rect- 

 angular opening below that for the bell. The south 

 aisle and vestry have plain parapets, but the other roofs 

 are eaved. 



The chancel has a restored i jth-century window of 

 five lights with Perpendicular tracery and in the gable 

 above a quatrefoil opening within a circle lighting the 

 roof space, but a 13th-century string at sill level con- 



i,^SouTH Aisle 



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 □ Modern 



Plan of Scaldwell Church 



tinued round the south buttress shows that the original 

 walling remains. The arches on the north side are of 

 two chamfered orders, on an octagonal pier and similar 

 responds, all with moulded capitals; in the south wall 

 at the west end is a modern arch to the organ-chamber. 

 The trefoil-headed piscina and double sedilia are 

 modern restorations, as are the responds of the chancel 

 arch, but the arch itself, of two chamfered orders, is 

 ancient. The dwarf stone screen and gates and all the 

 fittings of the chancel are modern. 



The arches of the south arcade are of two chamfered 

 orders springing from an octagonal pier with moulded 

 capital and chamfered base and from responds of similar 

 character, the height to the springing being 7 ft. 6 in. 

 The later and loftier north arcade has also arches of 

 two chamfered orders, and the pier and responds are 

 of octagonal form. In the south aisle is a trefoil-headed 

 piscina, but the east window has been removed to the 

 vestry. It is of three lights with the mullions crossing 

 in the head and has a double bracket on the south jamb 

 internally. The aisle is now open at its cast end to the 

 organ-chamber, but at the west is a tall lancet with 



' Kelly, Dirrctorirs. 



' Dugdjic, A/on. Avgl. v, 2 1 5. 



1 Ibid. 212. « Add. Ch. 22406. 



» Ibid. 22404-5. 



"■ Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), lnii, 55. 



' Add. Chs. 22407-9, 2241 1, 21767, 



21797, Ac. 



' Except (he modern vestrj', which i> 

 of dressed stone. 



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