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work are in hard chalk. The tower is lined with 

 brick, and the upper part is of timber with a pro- 

 jecting clock gable and surmounted by a four-sided 

 shingled spire. The north transept is quite modern, 

 built of yellow stock bricks with stone window- 

 heads. Internally the whole of the church ex- 

 cepting the tower is plastered. 



The chancel has a steep-pitched 15th-century 

 roof, having tie-beams with king-posts moulded 

 at the capitals and bases. 



The east window is of the 1 5th century, with 

 three trefoiled lights under a pointed segmental 

 head and an external moulded label. In the north 

 wall is a small deeply-splayed 12th-century light, 

 and in the walling to the east of it can be seen 

 the pudding-stone quoins of the contemporary 

 north-east angle. In the south wall is a single 

 trefoiled light under a square head, of the same 

 date as that in the east wall, and to the west of it 

 is a small square recess, its head made of the top 

 of a small lancet window ; it may have had a flue 

 originally. To the west are a modern pointed 

 doorway and two windows, one of one, the other 

 of two lights, apparently 13th-century work, with 

 double hollow chamfers on the outer face and 

 internal rebates for a frame. 



The chancel arch, c. 1130, has a semicircular 

 head moulded with a single order of cheveron 

 ornament and a chamfered label ; at the springing 

 is a chamfered string, below which the cheveron 

 continues. 



The west end of the nave has been rebuilt ; on 

 the north side are two modern two-light windows 

 and an arcade of two bays resting on a round 

 column with a capital and base in 14th-century 

 style, and at the north-east angle of the nave are 

 two pointed recesses, one in the east and one in 

 the north wall, with a modern shaft in the angle. 

 In the east recess is painted a Crucifixion, and in 

 the other our Lord in judgement, and the dead 

 rising, the date of the work being c. I 300. At 

 the south-east of the nave is a 1 oth-century red- 

 brick projection for a rood stair, lighted by a small 

 four-centred window. To the west of it is a 

 pointed segmental-headed window of the i6th 

 century with three cinquefoiled lights and a 

 moulded label, and to the west again a small 

 original 12th-century window. The south door- 

 way, c. 1 1 30, is round-headed, of two orders with 

 cheveron ornament. The west wall contains a 

 ' modern pointed doorway in 13th-century style, 

 and above it a circular window filled with plate 

 tracery. 



The modern transept is lighted by brick lancets 

 with stone heads, and has a gallery at the north 

 end ; to the east is a small vestry. 



There are no monuments of note, but in the 

 chancel on the north wall is a brass with the figures 

 of Matthew Page, 1631, and his mother Isabel, 

 1629. On the same wall is a 17th-century marble 



EAST BEDFONT 

 WITH HATTON 



scutcheon with a bend wavy and three lions ram- 

 pant. In the south-west corner is a painted 

 wooden panel to Thomas Weldish, who died in 

 1640, with his arms, Vert three running grey- 

 hounds argent, on a chief or a fox gules. In the 

 graveyard to the east of the chancel is a slab to 

 Matthew Page, 1678, with the arms, a fesse in- 

 dented between three martlets ; this used to be 

 in the floor of the chancel, but has been replaced 

 by a brass copy. 



There are six bells, the treble and fourth by 

 Richard Phelps, 1713, and the rest by Warner, 

 1870. 



The plate consists of a small cup inscribed a 

 the gift of I. F., with the date 1719, the hall- 

 marks being illegible, a small standing paten from 

 the same donor with the date-letter of 1719, a 

 larger standing paten with no hall-marks, given by 

 John and Serena Lee, 1756, with their arms, 

 cheeky a lion rampant, and a cup of 1857. 



The registers before 1812 are in four parts : 

 (i) burials 1678-1778 (with affidavits to 1725), 

 baptisms 1695-1777, marriages 1695-1754; 

 (ii) marriages printed 1754-1812 ; (iii) baptisms 

 1778-1813 ; (iv) burials 1779-1812. 



The advowson was granted to 

 ADVOWSON the priory of the Holy Trinity, 

 Hounslow, with the manor, by 

 John de Nevill before I3I3, C9 and a vicarage was 

 ordained and endowed by the Bishop of London 

 in 1 3 1 6, of which the master and brethren con- 

 tinued to be the patrons until the Dissolution. 

 After that time the advowson was in the hands of 

 the Crown until it was granted to the Bishop of 

 London, who first presented in I568. 71 In 1591 

 and 1597 John Draper, who held a lease of the 

 rectory, 78 was allowed to present to the vicarage by 

 favour of the bishop. 73 The patronage belonged to 

 the see of London until 1880, when it was trans- 

 ferred to the Crown by an exchange." 3 



The church was rated at $ 6s. 8J. in 1291 " 

 and in 1428.^ At the Dissolution the vicarage 

 was valued at 12 and the tithes at 32. In 

 1650 it was worth 29 yearly. 77 



The rectory was held by Hounslow Priory until 

 the suppression of the monasteries, 79 when it was 

 ceded to the Crown. It came to the Bishop of 

 London by exchange for other lands belonging to 

 the see, 79 probably about the same time as the 

 grant of the advowson. Bishop Aylmer gave it on 

 lease in I 588 to John Draper of ' Ludenvorth ' and 

 his daughters Margaret and Cecilia, together with 

 the tithes, the parsonage barn, and the Strawe- 

 House, but saving the right of the vicar in the close 

 known as the Old Vicar's Close. 80 It was to be 

 held for the term of their lives at a rent of 

 j8 1 3/. 4</. The rectory has always belonged 

 to the patron of the living, but the tithes of 

 sheaves and grain were granted to various persons 

 at different times. They were conveyed in 1621 



69 Pat. 6 Edw. II ; Abbrev. Rot. Orig. 

 (Rec. Com.), i, 211 ; Cal. Pat. 1313- 

 17, pp. 162, 210. 



7 Ncwcourt, Repert. i, 574. 



n ibid. 



7 J Lond. Epis. Reg. Grindal (Ban- 

 croft), fol. 329. 



7 Ncwcourt, Repert. i, 574. 

 1** Lund. Gaa. Sept 14, 1880. 

 1* Pope Nicb. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 17. 

 " Feud. Aidi, iii, 378. 



3*3 



7 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), i, 434. 



77 Lysons, op. cit. v, 9. 



7 8 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), i, 434. 



7 Lond. Epi. Reg. Grindal (Ban- 

 croft), fol. 329. 

 Ibid. 



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