A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



beyond this, where it contracts in width, is of 18th- 

 century date. It has a plain flat-arched east window 

 and similar windows north and south. The angles are 

 rounded. The older walling, in which there are no 

 windows, was refaced at this time and the whole of the 

 interior refashioned in the style of the day. No ancient 

 features remain. 



The pointed 13th-century chancel arch is of two 

 wide chamfered orders with hood-mould, the inner 

 order springing from half-octagonal responds with 

 moulded capitals and bases, the outer from moulded 

 imposts. The upper edge of the abacus of the capital 

 is left square, but the double roll of the base moulding 

 points to the latter half of the century, though it does 

 not occur elsewhere in the building. 



The nave arcade is of three ba\s with pointed arches 



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Plan of Quinton Church 



of two chamfered orders springing from circular pillars 

 with moulded capitals and bases and from keel-shaped 

 responds. The base mouldings are on a chamfered 

 plinth, with a hollow between the rolls; the plinth of 

 the west respond is square on plan." Near the east end 

 of the north wall of the nave is the blocked arch to the 

 destroyed transept, and beyond it, well above the spring 

 of the chancel arch, a square-headed rood-loft doorway, 

 now blocked, the stairs to which may have led from the 

 transept. The pointed north doorway, which is of a 

 single chamfered order, is walled up. A small trefoil- 

 headed window, now blocked, and seen only from the 

 outside at the east end of the north wall, was probably 

 moved to its present position after the demolition of 

 the transept. - 



The aisle is without buttresses or string-course, and 

 the south doorway, as well as that of the porch, appears 

 to be part of the 18th-century remodelling. The four- 

 centred 15th-century windows are of three cinque- 

 foiled lights, two in the south wall and one at the east 

 end, the west wall being blank. There is a piscina 

 with arched cinquefoiled head and circular bowl in 



the usual position, and a bracket on the south side of the 

 east window. At the north-east corner is the opening 

 of a former squint. 



The clerestory walls rise high above the chancel, 

 the line of whose former roof remains at the east end. 

 There are three four-centred windows of two trefoiled 

 lights on the south side and two on the north, to the 

 west of the former transept. The porch was refashioned 

 after the manner of the chancel, being extended out- 

 ward and contracted in width. Over the pointed outer 

 doorway, cut in the parapet, is the word 'Populo', and 

 in a similar position at the east end of the chancel 

 'Deo'. 



The original 1 3th-century tower is of three stages, 

 above which, without the intervention of a string, is the 

 later bell-chamber stage with battlemented parapet. 

 The windows of the original 

 bell-chamber, which are 

 of two uncusped pointed 

 lights under a containing 

 arch with hood-mould, re- 

 main on all four sides; they 

 have square jambs and 

 mullions and solid span- 

 drels. Below, the walls are 

 blank. There are pairs of 

 buttresses at the western 

 angles, those facing north 

 and south of a single stage, 

 the others larger and of two 

 stages. The windows of the 

 upper 15th-century stage 

 are four-centred and of two 

 cinquefoiled lights. The 

 tower opens to the nave 

 by a pointed arch of two 

 chamfered orders, the inner 

 order dying into the wall 

 and the outer continuous. Above the arch is the 

 widely splayed window already referred to. The tower 

 has a pyramidal slated roof with vane. There is no 

 vice. 



The pulpit and font are modern, the latter of Caen 

 stone in the Gothic style. ^ There is no ancient 

 glass.* 



On the north wall of the nave are recently executed 

 tablets in memory of George Battisson (d. 1700), 

 Elizabeth Battisson (d. 1725), and John Battisson 

 (d. 1737),' and to two men of the parish who fell in 

 the war of 1914-18. 



There are two bells in the tower, the first by 

 Matthew Bagley 1682, and the second by Thomas 

 Russell of Wootton, Bedfordshire, 1719.^ 



The plate consists of a silver-plated cup and paten 

 (the cup of modern medieval design), and a plated 

 flagon inscribed 'Hawley Church'.' 



The registers before 18 12 are as follows: (i) all 

 entries 1648-95; (ii) 1695-1721; (iii) 1721-83; 

 (iv) marriages 1755-79; (v) marriages 1 783-1812; 

 (vi) baptisms 1784-1812; (vii) burials 1784-1812. 



□ 121 Century late 



□ 131 Century 



CH 1 5ffl Century 



BlSffl Century & Modern 



' The pillars are 19 in. diam., and the 

 arches spring at a height of 6 ft. 8 in. above 

 the floor. 



^ Assoc. Arch. Sec, Rep. xxix, 442, 

 where it is classed as a low-side window. 

 In its present position it would have 

 opened into the transept. The sill is about 

 2 ft. above the ground. 



3 It is in memory of John Thomas 



Smith, who died in 1881. There is also a 

 small 18th-century font. 



♦ In Bridges* time there were 'two rude 

 pictures painted on the glass* in the middle 

 window of the aisle: Hist, of Northants. i, 

 384, where they are briefly described. 



5 There is an imperfect floor-slab to 

 John Battisson in the chancel. 



» North, Ch. Bells of Northants. 388, 



284 



where the inscriptions are given. In 1552. 

 there were two great bells and a sanctus 

 bell. 



' Markham, Ch. Tlate of Northants. 

 246. Hawley is a district in the parishes 

 of Yateley and Ashe, Hants. In 1 843 there 

 was a small Elizabethan cup with cover, 

 and a small silver plate. 



