A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



the west side. The second bay in the north arcade 

 is therefore wider than those to the west of it, and 

 while copying the details of the rest has a label of 

 early 14th-century section, giving a clue to the time 

 of the alteration. In the latter part of the 1 3th 

 century a further enlargement took place, the east 

 bays of the south aisle being widened to form a 

 south chapel. At a later date, difficult to fix, 

 but perhaps in the iyth century, the north aisle 

 was shortened by one bay, the western bay of the 

 north arcade being replaced by a solid wall. The 

 south porch is an addition of c. 1340, and the west 

 tower is of 15th-century date. The small north 

 vestry is modern. 



The east window of the chancel is a modern one of 

 three cinquefoiled lights with tracery of 14th-century 

 style. In the north wall is a small plain modern door 

 to the vestry and at the west a square-headed I 5th-cen- 

 tury window of two cinquefoiled lights with tracery 

 over. In the south-east angle of the chancel is a small 

 hexagonal moulded bracket with a shallow pin-hole in 

 its upper surface. In the south wall is a square-headed 

 14th-century window with two cinquefoiled lights 

 and quatrefoiled spandrels, and to the west of it another 

 window of the same date but of two trefoiled lights 

 with a quatrefoil over and a two-centred head. The 

 chancel arch is of two roll-moulded orders with an 

 undercut label to the west, which is continued as a 

 string north and south to the walls of the nave. 

 The responds of the arch are half-octagonal, with 

 moulded capitals and bases of the same details as the 

 eastern responds of the nave arcades. The nave is of 

 four bays, the first bay of the north arcade having an 

 arch of two chamfered orders, with a filleted roll for a 

 label. The first column of this arcade is octagonal, 

 having been made up, as already noted, from the 

 respond of the transept arch. All the other columns 

 of the arcades are circular, and the arches are of two 

 hollow-chamfered orders with the angles of the cham- 

 fers bevelled off, the workmanship being rather rough 

 and uneven. This is particularly the case with the 

 wider arch (the second), in the north arcade, which, as 

 already explained, is probably an early 14th-century 

 alteration. The first column of the south arcade, and 

 the second of the north have circular capitals with 

 fluted scallops, a survival of Romanesque forms, while all 

 the other columns have plainly moulded capitals. The 

 present west respond of the north arcade, which is of 

 three bays only, is really a round column half buried 

 in the walling of the blank western bay. The west 

 respond of the south arcade is a half-octagon, like that 

 at the east. 



The north aisle has an early 14th-century east 

 window of three cinquefoiled lights with modern 

 tracery and an external scroll-moulded label. In the 

 north wall of the aisle, to the east, is a modern win- 

 dow in an old opening, with two trefoiled lights and 

 tracery of 14th-century style. The north door is also 

 modern, with plain chamfered jambs and two-centred 

 head, and west of this is a two-light window of I 7th- 

 century date with rounded uncusped heads and a flat 

 lintel. The west window is probably of the same 

 date, and is of three uncusped lights with smaller un- 

 cusped lights over and a four-centred head. 



The south chapel has a late 13th-century east win- 



dow of three uncusped lights with much-restored in- 

 terlacing tracery. There are internal and external 

 labels, and jamb-shafts with moulded capitals and 

 bases, both having a member ornamented with a cable 

 pattern. In the south wall are two windows, the 

 openings of which are of the same date as the east 

 window, but have been cut back in the ijth century 

 and filed with tracery of two narrow trefoiled lights 

 with smaller lights over under a square head. On the 

 internal jambs portions of the I 3th-century jamb-shafts 

 and the cable-moulded capitals and bases are still visible. 

 At the east end of the south wall is a 15th-century 

 piscina with chamfered jambs and trefoiled head. 

 The chapel opens to the south aisle by an arch of two 

 moulded orders, of rough late 13th-century workman- 

 ship, with responds of three half-round shafts separated 

 by square projections, having coarsely-cut and moulded 

 capitals and bases. The north respond is somewhat 

 clumsily set against the second column of the south 

 arcade, and the south respond is pushed back into 

 the south wall of the nave to make the passage-way 

 from the aisle as wide as possible. 



The south doorway of the nave is of the date of 

 the south aisle, and has a pointed arch of two 

 orders with filleted rolls and a band of dog-tooth 

 ornament on the outer order. In the jambs are 

 circular shafts with coarsely moulded capitals and 

 bases. The south porch has a small modern west 

 window, and an outer archway of two moulded 

 orders c. i 340. 



The tower, of the 1 5th century, is of three stages 

 with an embattled parapet, above which rises the turret 

 of a north-east staircase. The belfry openings are of 

 two cinquefoiled lights with a quatrefoil over, and the 

 west window of the ground stage is of three cinque- 

 foiled lights under a four-centred head, the second 

 stage being lighted by small trefoiled openings. The 

 west doorway has a four-centred head, and jambs with 

 continuous mouldings. 



The font is of late 12th-century date, having a 

 slightly tapering circular bowl, carved with narrow 

 pointed flutings, and a short stem with a roll-moulded 

 base. 



The roofs throughout the church are modern, and 

 though there is a good deal of old material used up in 

 the open seating there is no woodwork of any particular 

 interest. A plain 17th-century altar-table has been 

 preserved. In the east window of the south aisle are 

 two heads of angels in 15th-century glass. 



The tower contains six bells, all cast by John 

 Warner & Sons in 1884, and a sanctus which is. 

 blank. 



The plate is modern, and comprises a silver-gilt 

 chalice, paten and flagon, and a silver paten. 



The first book of the registers contains burials be- 

 tween 1653 and 1812 ; the second baptisms between 

 1663 and 1811, and the third marriages from 1698 

 to 1750; while the first printed book of marriages 

 contains entries from 1754 to 1812. 



The chapel of Cuddington was ap- 

 ADVOWSON pendant to the church of Haddenham,. 

 and was held by the Priory of St. 

 Andrew, Rochester, until its dissolution in 1 540." 

 The vicarage of Haddenham was ordained by Bishop 

 Hugh of Wells (1209-35) and appropriated to the 



50 These are really the corresponding 

 columns in the two arcades, as that on the 

 north was the first from the east as origin- 



ally set out, the transept arch not being 

 reckoned as part of the arcade. 



270 



"CottMS. Dom.x,fol. 105 ; Dugdale* 

 Mon. i, 169. 



