A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



Walgrave to John Langham.' It continued to be held 

 with the principal manor, which in subsequent deeds 

 was described as the manor or lordship of Walgrave 

 alias Walgrave Elborough.^ 



The grant of the church (q.v.) to the monastery of 

 La Charite sur Loire and its daughter house of St. 

 Augustine in Daventry was made with all that belonged 

 to that church, and when the dissolution of St. Augus- 

 tine's by Clement VII in 1526 was followed by the 

 bestowal of its lands on Cardinal Wolsey for 'Wolsey's 

 Colleges'' a manor in Walgrave was included among 

 them,'' and was surveyed in that year.' In 1532 mes- 

 suages in Walgrave, in the king's hands by the attainder 

 of Wolsey, were granted to the use of the dean and 



had only put six of their own servants into the hospital, 

 allowing them 20s. apiece.'" 



The church of ST. PETER stands on high ground 

 on the south side of the village and consists of chancel, 

 36 ft. by 21 ft.; nave of three bays, 49 ft. 

 CHURCH by 17 ft 9 in.; north and south aisles, 

 north and south porches, and west tower, 

 10 ft. 8 in. square, surmounted by a broach spire. 

 There is also a vestry and organ-chamber, 16 ft. 9 in. 

 by 10 ft. 3 in., opening from the south aisle, erected 

 originally as the mortuary chapel of the Langham 

 family, in which was a galleried pew. The south aisle 

 is 10 ft. 8 in. wide, and the north aisle a foot wider. 

 All the above measurements are internal. 



5 Porch i 



■ 141 Century 

 ^ I7IB Century 



1 5 o 







10 20 30 40 50 



Scale of Feet 

 Plan of Walgrave Church 



chapter of King Henry VIII's College (of Christ 

 Church) in Oxford.* 



In 1275-6 the Master of the Hospital of St. John 

 of Northampton appears as withholding suit due 

 from a tenement in Walgrave at the hundred court of 

 Orlingbury.^ 



Lands which Sir William Waldegrave and others 

 had of the grant of John Smyth,* late of Walgrave, 

 willed to finding of four poor folk in Waldegrave at 

 the naming and ordering of the said Sir William, were 

 excepted from the lease of Walgrave Manor, granted 

 in 1505 by Sir William Walgrave, to William Lane.' 

 This was presumably the Hospital at Walgrave, con- 

 cerning which it was stated in 1628, in the cause of 

 Lane v. Bawde, that there was a hospital founded in 

 Walgrave by a blacksmith in the reign of Henry VI, 

 with lands producing £140 a year, of which Lady 

 Mallory, 'sometime wife of one of the Lanes, lord of 

 said town', had seized the title-deeds and appropriated 

 the lands. She, however, and Sanders, who bought 

 from Lane, had contributed to the relief of the poor in 

 the hospital; but Paget and Bawde, the later purchasers. 



The ground-plan of the church, with the exception 



of the vestry, is of the 14th century, and the building 

 is a very good example of the architecture of the period. 

 In 1867-8 the spire was partly rebuilt and the church 

 restored, a clerestory added, new high-pitched roofs 

 placed on the nave and chancel, the west window and 

 tower arch opened out, and new seating introduced. 

 The chancel roof is tiled, that of the nave slated, while 

 the aisles have lean-to leaded roofs. The Langham 

 chapel (vestry) was probably added in the latter half of 

 the 17th century, shortly after the family acquired the 

 manor in 1654; it has a straight parapet and opens 

 without an arch to the aisle, the roof of which is con- 

 tinued over it. 



The chancel is of three bays, with a two-light win- 

 dow in the two western bays on each side, and a window 

 of three lights in the eastern bay on the south. There 

 was formerly a vestry, or priests' chamber, on the north 

 side, the blocked doorway of which remains. The east 

 window is of five trefoiled lights with reticulated tra- 

 cery, and the two-light side windows are trefoiled with 

 a quatrefoil in the head. The westernmost on the south 



' Feet of F. Northants. East. 1657. 

 * Com. Pleas. Deeds Enr. East. 1 3 

 Geo. Ill; Hil. 14 Geo. III. 

 ^ At Oxford and Ipswich. 

 ■• Pat. R. 17 Hen. VIII, pt. i ; L. and 



P. Hen. Fin, n, 19 1 3. 



5 Ibid. 2217. 



*> Ibid. V, 1370 (23); Pat. 

 Hen. VIII, pt. 2. 



' Hand. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 12. 



8 Cf. Cal Pal. 1452-61, p. 261. 

 » Com. Pleas, Deeds Enr. Hil. 

 R. 24 Henry VII. 



"> Lords' journals, iii, 780. 



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