WYMERSLEY HUNDRED 



HARDINGSTONE 



porches, and west tower, 12 ft. square, all these mea- 

 surements being internal. The width across nave and 

 aisles is 37 ft. 6 in. The north and south doorways are 

 blocked and porches disused, the main entrance to the 

 church being by a modern doorway in the north wall of 

 the tower. 



The greater part of the present building is of 14th- 

 century date, but the lower part of the tower may be- 

 long to an earlier structure. The 14th-century rebuild- 

 ing comprised chancel, aisled nave, north porch, and 

 the upper part of the tower; early in the 1 5th century 

 the chapel on the south side of the chancel was added, 

 or an older one modified, and the south porch erected. 

 Extensive repairs and alterations in the i8th century 



pitched east gable is now surmounted by a modern 

 Gothic cross, and the modern pointed east window is 

 of three lights with Decorated tracery. The north and 

 south walls are without windows but on the south the 

 chancel is open to the chapel at its west end by a 1 5th- 

 century pointed arch of two chamfered orders, the 

 inner order on half-octagonal responds with moulded 

 capitals and bases.* No ancient ritual arrangements 

 have been retained: the floor is flagged. The pointed 

 chancel arch is of two chamfered orders with hood- 

 moulds, resting on modern moulded corbels. 



The chapeP is open to the aisle at its west end, the 

 intervening wall having been removed, though the 

 original diagonal angle buttress of the aisle was left 



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have left their mark on the fabric, especially in the 

 chancel, the north, east, and part of the south walls of 

 which appear to have been rebuilt on the old founda- 

 tions.' The date 1764 on the lead covering the roof of 

 the south aisle^ probably indicates approximately the 

 time when these reparations took place. In 1868-9 

 the whole of the i8th<entury fittings were removed, 

 the tower arch opened out, new roofs erected over the 

 aisles, the other roofs repaired, a new east window in- 

 serted in the chancel, and the whole of the walls 

 replastered.' 



The tower is of rubble, and the nave, aisles, and 

 porches of roughly coursed dressed ironstone. The 

 roofs are leaded and of low pitch behind straight para- 

 pets, except in the north aisle where the parapet is 

 battlemented. 



As rebuilt in the 1 8th century the chancel is faced 

 with ashlar, with quoins at its four angles, chamfered 

 plinth and plain cornice and parapet, the latter broken 

 by projections into four unequal bays. The low- 



standing. There is a four-centred doorway in the south 

 wall and west of it a square-headed window of three 

 cinquefoiled lights? the two-light east window, which 

 is wholly restored or modern, is also square-headed. 



The early- 14th-century nave arcades consist of five 

 pointed arches of two chamfered orders, with hood- 

 moulds on one side, springing from octagonal pillars with 

 moulded capitals and bases, and from responds of 

 similar character. On the north side the capitals are 

 alike, but on the south they differ in detail though their 

 general character is the same. The bases, with one 

 exception,* have all a double roll moulding and stand 

 on square plinths.' 



The aisles have diagonal angle buttresses, chamfered 

 plinths, and strings at sill level; their west windows are 

 blocked, but appear to have been of a single pointed 

 light. On the north side the three windows in the 

 north wall are tall square-headed openings of three tre- 

 foiled lights, and that at the east end is of the same 

 character but of two lights.* The pointed north door- 



' Other rvidcnccs of i8th-c«itury 

 reparition remain in (he plastered ceilings 

 of both porches, the finial on the gable of 

 the north porch, the pinnacles of the lower, 

 and a small font bowl in the churchyard. 



* Nor/Aanfs. jV, &^ Q. N.s. iv, 149. 

 Cast in the lead in letters 2^ in. high arc 

 the words 'The Honourable Edward Bou- 

 veric Est{' 1 764". 



' The work was done under the direc- 

 tion of Robert Palgravc, architect, Lon- 

 don. The church was reopened for divine 

 service on 9 February 1 869 : N'toa Aler^ 

 cury, I J February 1869. 



* The arch is hidden by the organ-case. 



' Known as the Har\ey Chapel; the 

 Harvey monuments are described below. 

 The organ was set up here in 1868, but 



otherwise the chapel was not touched. 



* The south-west pillar, which with the 

 arch is of limestone; elsewhere internally 

 the dressed stone is local ironstone. 



' The plinths are 2 ft. 3 in. square and 

 15 in. high. 



' All these windows are wholly re- 

 stored. 



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